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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 221 was passed by the House on March
         23, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 221 was passed by the Senate on May
         6, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor