1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 723
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 1, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 27, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 27, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the Texas Academy of Foreign Languages and Culture.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Chapter 609, Acts of the 73rd
1-11     Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is repealed.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
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