1-1           By:  Galloway                                    S.B. No. 327

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 28, 1997; February 3, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; February 27, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 27, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the regular meetings of the Board of Port Commissioners

 1-9     of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County,

1-10     Texas.

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

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 16, Chapter 197, Acts of the 58th

1-13     Legislature, 1963, is amended to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 16.  The Board of Port Commissioners shall hold regular

1-15     meetings at least once [twice] each month on the day and time to be

1-16     designated by said commissioners, as well as such special meetings

1-17     as may be called by the president, or by the request of three (3)

1-18     members of the Board of Commissioners.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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