By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 3208
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to School Land Board meetings.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 32.016, Natural Resources Code, is
 1-5     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (a)  When necessary, the [The] board shall meet on the first
 1-8     and third Tuesdays of each month in the land office.
 1-9           (c)  The chairman of the board may call special meetings of
1-10     the board at any time he thinks necessary by giving the other
1-11     members notice.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.