1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 1779
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;
1-3 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Real Estate Research Center.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 86.52(e), Education Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (e) The committee shall elect a presiding officer and an
1-13 assistant presiding officer [chairman] from its membership, and
1-14 each officer [he] shall serve for a [an annual] term of one year.
1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-16 (b) Not later than September 15, 1997, the Real Estate
1-17 Research Advisory Committee shall meet and elect an assistant
1-18 presiding officer of the committee. The committee may provide that
1-19 the initial term of the assistant presiding officer expires after
1-20 one year or on the next date that the committee selects a presiding
1-21 officer.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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