By West H.B. No. 585 76R1277 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of library districts to receive gifts, 1-3 grants, and donations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 326, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 326.072 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 326.072. GIFTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONS. A district may 1-8 accept and administer a gift, grant, or donation from any source to 1-9 carry out the purposes of this chapter. 1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.