1-1 By: Carter (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2397
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Crime Stoppers Advisory Council.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 414.002(c), Government Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 (c) The term of office of a member is four [two] years.
1-13 SECTION 2. At their first meeting after this Act takes
1-14 effect, the members of the Crime Stoppers Advisory Council shall
1-15 draw for three terms expiring September 1, 2000, and two terms
1-16 expiring September 1, 2001.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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