By Junell H.B. No. 1236
75R5582 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the continuation of the Texas Racing Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 18.01(a), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e,
1-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The Texas Racing Commission is subject to Chapter 325,
1-7 Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence
1-8 as provided by that chapter, and except as provided by Subsections
1-9 (b) and (c) of this section, the commission is abolished and this
1-10 Act expires September 1, 1999 [1997].
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.