By Brown                                               S.B. No. 142
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to enforcement of the Flood Control and Insurance Act in
 1-3     certain counties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 16.323(c), Water Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (c)  This section applies only to a county that:
 1-8                 (1)  contains [containing] two or more municipalities
 1-9     each of which has a population of 250,000 or more; or
1-10                 (2)  has a population of 2.8 million or more.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.