1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 221 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 24, 1999; 1-3 March 25, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; April 27, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 27, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the appointment of members to the Board of Law 1-9 Examiners. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 82.001(c), Government Code, is amended to 1-12 read as follows: 1-13 (c) Appointments shall be made without regard to race, 1-14 color, disability, creed, sex, religion, age, or national origin. 1-15 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect 1-16 an appointment made before the effective date of this Act. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-24 * * * * *