1-1     By:  Hartnett (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                  H.B. No. 510
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the composition of the Commission on Uniform State
 1-9     Laws.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 762.003(a), Government Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The commission is composed of:
1-14                 (1)  six members appointed by the governor; and
1-15                 (2)  residents of this state who, because of long
1-16     service in the cause of uniformity in state legislation, have been
1-17     elected life members of the national conference or who have at
1-18     least 15 years of service as a member of the commission and at
1-19     least five years of combined service as a judge or justice of a
1-20     trial or appellate court of this state.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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