By Keel H.B. No. 1618
76R6754 CMR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of library districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 326.004(a), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A library district may be created in a county with a
1-7 population of more than 50,000 [100,000] and, if created, must be
1-8 maintained, operated, and financed as provided by this chapter.
1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-10 SECTION 3. 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.