AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the effect of certain regulations adopted by a joint
 1-2     airport zoning board.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 241.014, Local Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (e)  The joint airport zoning board for an airport that is
 1-7     owned or operated by a defense agency of the federal government and
 1-8     that is closed by the federal government may provide that zoning
 1-9     regulations adopted by the board continue in effect until the
1-10     fourth [second] anniversary of the date the airport is closed.
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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 214 passed the Senate on
         March 2, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 214 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor