1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 1177
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 17, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the publication of the Texas Register.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 2002.013, Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 2002.013. FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION. The secretary of
1-13 state shall publish the Texas Register at regular intervals, but
1-14 not less often than 52 [100] times each calendar year.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-21 * * * * *