1-1           By:  Armbrister                                  S.B. No. 438

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1997; February 10, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     February 20, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0;

 1-6     February 20, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 438               By:  Armbrister

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to application of the capitol view corridors to

1-11     construction, renovation, and equipment of Darrell K Royal-Texas

1-12     Memorial Stadium.

1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-14           SECTION 1.  Chapter 50, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular

1-15     Session, 1983 (Article 6145-13, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is

1-16     amended by adding Section 7 to read as follows:

1-17           Sec. 7.  APPLICATION TO DARRELL K ROYAL-TEXAS MEMORIAL

1-18     STADIUM. This Act does not apply to the construction, renovation,

1-19     or equipment of the structure known as Darrell K Royal-Texas

1-20     Memorial Stadium and improvements related to that structure.

1-21     However, the height of the structure or a related improvement may

1-22     not exceed 666 feet above sea level.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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