By Hill H.B. No. 2579 75R7062 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers of the Texas Housing Corporation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2306.555, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) In carrying out its powers and duties, the corporation 1-7 may perform the functions of a mortgage banker, including the 1-8 making or purchasing of mortgage loans. 1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-15 passage, and it is so enacted.