By Naishtat H.B. No. 221 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the appointment of members to the Board of Law 1-3 Examiners. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 82.001(c), Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (c) Appointments shall be made without regard to race, 1-8 color, disability, creed, sex, religion, age, or national origin. 1-9 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect 1-10 an appointment made before the effective date of this Act. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.