AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the publication of the Texas Register.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 2002.013, Government Code, is amended to

 1-4     read as follows:

 1-5           Sec. 2002.013.  FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION.  The secretary of

 1-6     state shall publish the Texas Register at regular intervals, but

 1-7     not less often than 52 [100] times each calendar year.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-9           SECTION 3.  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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1177 passed the Senate on

         April 17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1177 passed the House on

         May 16, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor