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         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.