By Goolsby H.B. No. 2458
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to compensation of the members of the Texas Lottery
1-3 Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 467.027(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A commission member is [not] entitled to receive for the
1-8 member's services an annual salary of $150,000 [compensation for
1-9 serving on the commission].
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.