By Ramsay H.B. No. 1240 76R3086 BDH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that the University Interscholastic 1-3 League hold public hearings on district assignments. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 33.083, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) To allow an opportunity for public comment, the 1-8 University Interscholastic League shall hold a public hearing 1-9 before assigning schools to appropriate districts for purposes of 1-10 interscholastic competition. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-12 (b) The University Interscholastic League shall comply with 1-13 Section 33.083(e), Education Code, as added by this Act, beginning 1-14 with assignments to districts for the 2000-2001 school year. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.