AN ACT

 1-1     relating to approval of the comptroller's account against the

 1-2     state.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 403.005, Government Code, is repealed.

 1-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 1-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 1-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 1-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 1-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-11     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1453 passed the Senate on

         April 17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1453 passed the House on

         May 28, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, two present

         not voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor