75R10230 SKB-D By Smith H.B. No. 2335 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2335: By Lewis of Orange C.S.H.B. No. 2335 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the continuation of certain crime control and 1-3 prevention districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 8.01, Crime Control and Prevention 1-6 District Act (Article 2370c-4, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) In a county with a population of one million or more, 1-9 the board or commissioners court may specify the number of years 1-10 for which the district should be continued. The governing body of 1-11 a municipality with a population of 75,000 or less that creates a 1-12 district under Section 1.05A of this Act may specify the number of 1-13 years for which the district should be continued. The board, 1-14 commissioners court, or governing body of a municipality may 1-15 continue a district only for 5, 10, 15, or 20 years. For a 1-16 continuation referendum under this subsection, the ballot shall be 1-17 printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Whether 1-18 the ______ Crime Control and Prevention District should be 1-19 continued for _____ years and the crime control and prevention 1-20 district sales and use tax should be continued for _____ years." 1-21 SECTION 2. Section 10.01, Crime Control and Prevention 1-22 District Act (Article 2370c-4, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-23 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-24 (c) Subsection (b) of this section does not apply to a 2-1 district that is continued under Section 8.01(d) of this Act, and 2-2 that district is dissolved on the expiration of the period for 2-3 which it was continued. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.