By Hunter                                        H.B. No. 587

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                                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.