By Driver                                             H.B. No. 2798
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of municipalities to offer
 1-3     telecommunications  services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 54.201 and 54.202, Utilities Code, are
 1-6     repealed.
 1-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 1-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 1-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-13     passage, and it is so enacted.