By Williams H.B. No. 2141 76R3360 WP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to disadvantaged county designation for purposes of 1-3 financing a highway project. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 222.053(a), Transportation Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) In this section, "economically disadvantaged county" 1-8 means a county that has a per capita taxable property value that is 1-9 less than one-half the average per capita taxable property value of 1-10 counties in the state, or in comparison to other counties in the 1-11 state has: 1-12 (1) below average per capita taxable property value; 1-13 (2) below average per capita income; and 1-14 (3) above average unemployment. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.