By Naishtat H.B. No. 221
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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.