By Wise                                               H.B. No. 1653

         75R5802 MLS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the dating of state publications.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 441.103, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  Each state publication shall clearly reflect the date

 1-7     that the state publication is produced or initially distributed by

 1-8     a state agency in a conspicuous location at or near the beginning

 1-9     of the publication.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.