By Hawley                                        H.B. No. 822

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulatory authority of a county over wild animals.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 240.0025(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The order does not apply[:]

 1-7                 [(1)]  inside the limits of a municipality[; or]

 1-8                 [(2)  to an exhibitor licensed under the Animal Welfare

 1-9     Act (7 U.S.C. Section 2131 et seq.)].

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.