1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1442

 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 15, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 5; April 15, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1442                   By:  Nixon

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the qualifications for appointment to the Texas

1-11     Transportation Commission.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 201.051, Transportation

1-14     Code, is repealed.

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.

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