By Carter                                             H.B. No. 2397
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Crime Stoppers Advisory Council.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 414.002(c), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  The term of office of a member is four [two] years.
 1-7           SECTION 2.  At their first meeting after this Act takes
 1-8     effect, the members of the Crime Stoppers Advisory Council shall
 1-9     draw for three terms expiring September 1, 2000, and two terms
1-10     expiring September 1, 2001.
1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.