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      By Hamric                                       H.B. No. 2349

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the applicability of the Private Real Property Rights

 1-3     Preservation Act to certain political subdivisions.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2007.003(d), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  This chapter applies to a governmental action taken by a

 1-8     county or by a political subdivision for which the commissioners

 1-9     court is the governing body only if the action is taken on or after

1-10     September 1, 1999 [1997].

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.