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      By Lewis of Orange                              H.B. No. 1768

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to meetings of commissioners courts.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Article 81.005(c)(3), Local Government Code is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6                 (3)  the regular meeting place of another political

 1-7     subdivision if the commissioners court [serves a county with a

 1-8     population of 350,000 or more and] is meeting with the governing

 1-9     body of that political subdivision located wholly or partly within

1-10     the county and if the regular meeting place of that political

1-11     subdivision is in the county.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.