1-1     By:  Dukes (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)              H.B. No. 3337

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;

 1-3     May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to application of the Capitol view corridors to the

 1-9     construction, redevelopment, and improvement of East 11th Street

1-10     pursuant to the East 11th and 12th Streets Redevelopment Program.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 50, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular

1-13     Session, 1983 (Article 6145-13, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is

1-14     amended by adding Section 8 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 8.  APPLICATION TO EAST 11TH AND 12TH STREETS

1-16     REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.  This Act does not apply to the

1-17     construction, redevelopment, and improvement of 11th Street

1-18     pursuant to the East 11th and 12th Streets Redevelopment Program.

1-19     However, the height of any improvements may not exceed 600 feet

1-20     above sea level.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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