By Uresti H.B. No. 2292
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to county restriction on the use of aerial fireworks
1-3 during drought conditions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 240.904(d), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) To facilitate compliance with an order adopted under
1-8 Subsection (c), the order must be adopted before:
1-9 (1) June 21 [15] of each year for the Fourth of July
1-10 fireworks season; and
1-11 (2) December 17 [15] of each year for each December
1-12 fireworks season.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.