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.