By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1179

 1-1     vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-2                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-3                                   AN ACT

 1-4     relating to testimony given before a county commissioners court;

 1-5     providing a penalty.

 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-7           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,

 1-8     is amended by adding Section 81.031 to read as follows:

 1-9           Sec. 81.031.  TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMISSIONERS COURT.  The

1-10     commissioners court may require that testimony before the court be

1-11     given under oath.  A person who makes a false statement under oath

1-12     is subject to prosecution under Section 37.02, Penal Code.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.

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