1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1179

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 17, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to testimony given before a county commissioners court;

 1-9     providing a penalty.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,

1-12     is amended by adding Section 81.031 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 81.031.  TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMISSIONERS COURT.  The

1-14     commissioners court may require that testimony before the court be

1-15     given under oath.  A person who makes a false statement under oath

1-16     is subject to prosecution under Section 37.02, Penal Code.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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