By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 142
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to enforcement of the Flood Control and Insurance Act in
 1-2     certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c),  Section 16.323, Water Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  This section applies only to a county that:
 1-7                 (1)  contains [containing] two or more municipalities
 1-8     each of which has a population of 250,000 or more; or
 1-9                 (2)  has a population of 2.8 million or more.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.