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         By Madden                                              H.B. No. 477
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 477:
         By Madden                                          C.S.H.B. No. 477
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the vote required for election of the governing board
 1-3     of certain junior college districts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.082, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
 1-7           (k)  Notwithstanding Subsection (g), the board may provide
 1-8     for the election of its members by plurality vote without a runoff
 1-9     election.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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.