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By: Ogden S.B. No. 1211
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to meetings of commissioners courts.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Article 81.005(c)(3), Local Government Code is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (3) the regular meeting place of another political
1-6 subdivision if the commissioners court [serves a county with a
1-7 population of 350,000 or more and] is meeting with the governing
1-8 body of that political subdivision located wholly or partly within
1-9 the county and if the regular meeting place of that political
1-10 subdivision is in the county.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.