By Cain                                                S.B. No. 661
         76R1212 LJR-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the composition of the Commission on Uniform State
 1-3     Laws.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 762.003(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The commission is composed of:
 1-8                 (1)  six members appointed by the governor; and
 1-9                 (2)  residents of this state who, because of long
1-10     service in the cause of uniformity in state legislation, have been
1-11     elected life members of the national conference or who have at
1-12     least 15 years of service as a member of the commission and at
1-13     least five years of combined service as a judge or justice of a
1-14     trial or appellate court of this state.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.