By Counts                                             H.B. No. 1012

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the appointment of an environmental health officer in a

 1-3     home-rule municipality.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 341.082(a), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  In a home-rule municipality [with a population of at

 1-8     least one million], an environmental health officer may be

 1-9     appointed to enforce this chapter.

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.