By Hunter H.B. No. 587
75R3378 SKB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of certain community centers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 534.001(c), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) A community center is:
1-7 (1) an agency of the state, a governmental unit, and a
1-8 unit of local government, as defined and specified by Chapters 101
1-9 and 102, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; [and]
1-10 (2) a local government, as defined by Section 791.003,
1-11 Government Code;
1-12 (3) a local government for the purposes of Chapter
1-13 1084, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article
1-14 715c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and
1-15 (4) a political subdivision for the purposes of
1-16 Chapter 172, Local Government Code.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.