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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2626 was passed by the House on April
         22, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2626 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor