1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1453 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 8, 1997, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-5 April 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to approval of the comptroller's account against the 1-9 state. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 403.005, Government Code, is repealed. 1-12 SECTION 2. 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, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-19 * * * * *