By Bivins S.B. No. 1484 75R4199 BEM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the ex officio members of the Texas Racing Commission. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2.02(a), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e, 1-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The commission consists of six members appointed by the 1-7 governor with the advice and consent of the senate and two ex 1-8 officio members who shall have the right to vote. The ex officio 1-9 members are the chairman of the Public Safety Commission or a 1-10 member of the Public Safety Commission designated by the chairman 1-11 of the Public Safety Commission and the comptroller of public 1-12 accounts. In making appointments to the commission, the governor 1-13 shall strive to achieve representation by all the population groups 1-14 of the state with regard to economic status, sex, race, and 1-15 ethnicity. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.