1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1389
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 24, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 2; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the applicability of the Private Real Property Rights
1-9 Preservation Act to certain political subdivisions.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 2007.003, Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (d) This chapter applies to a governmental action taken by a
1-14 county or by a political subdivision for which the commissioners
1-15 court is the governing body only if the action is taken on or after
1-16 September 1, 1999 [1997].
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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