By Place                                        H.B. No. 1779

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the Real Estate Research Center.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 86.52(e), Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  The committee shall elect a presiding officer and an

 1-7     assistant presiding officer [chairman] from its membership, and

 1-8     each officer [he] shall serve for a [an annual] term of one year.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-10           (b)  Not later than September 15, 1997, the Real Estate

1-11     Research Advisory Committee shall meet and elect an assistant

1-12     presiding officer of the committee. The committee may provide that

1-13     the initial term of the assistant presiding officer expires after

1-14     one year or on the next date that the committee selects a presiding

1-15     officer.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.