By Palmer                                             H.B. No. 2626
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to construction and renovation work on county-owned
 1-3     improvements in certain counties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 212.903(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  This section applies only to a county with a population
 1-8     of 250,000 [2.8 million] or more.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.