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