1-1     By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1696

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 21, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the enforcement of land use restrictions in certain

 1-9     counties.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  The heading to Chapter 203, Property Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13             CHAPTER 203.  ENFORCEMENT OF LAND USE RESTRICTIONS

1-14                 IN CERTAIN COUNTIES [COUNTY WITH POPULATION

1-15                          OF MORE THAN TWO MILLION]

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 203.001, Property Code, is amended to

1-17     read as follows:

1-18           Sec. 203.001.  APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  This chapter

1-19     applies only to a county with a population of more than 200,000

1-20     [two million].

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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