AN ACT
1-1 relating to the regular meetings of the Board of Port Commissioners
1-2 of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County,
1-3 Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 16, Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th
1-6 Legislature, 1963, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 16. The Board of Port Commissioners shall hold regular
1-8 meetings at least once [twice] each month on the day and time to be
1-9 designated by said commissioners, as well as such special meetings
1-10 as may be called by the president, or by the request of three (3)
1-11 members of the Board of Commissioners.
1-12 SECTION 2. 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,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 327 passed the Senate on
March 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 327 passed the House on
May 2, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor