76R10833 DRH-D 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.