By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1177

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       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.