By Keel H.B. No. 1642 75R7028 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the abolishment of the Commission on Jail Standards. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 511, Government Code, is repealed. 1-5 SECTION 2. On the effective date of this Act: 1-6 (1) the Commission on Jail Standards is abolished and 1-7 the terms of the members of the commission expire; 1-8 (2) all unobligated funds of the commission are 1-9 transferred to the general revenue fund; 1-10 (3) the property of the commission is transferred to 1-11 the General Services Commission; and 1-12 (4) the records of the commission are transferred to 1-13 the Legislative Budget Board. 1-14 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.