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.