By Ellis                                        S.B. No. 1696

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the enforcement of land use restrictions in certain

 1-3     counties.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The heading to Chapter 203, Property Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7             CHAPTER 203.  ENFORCEMENT OF LAND USE RESTRICTIONS

 1-8                 IN CERTAIN COUNTIES [COUNTY WITH POPULATION

 1-9                          OF MORE THAN TWO MILLION]

1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 203.001, Property Code, is amended to

1-11     read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 203.001.  APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  This chapter

1-13     applies only to a county with a population of more than 200,000

1-14     [two million].

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.