By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 825
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to county restriction on the use of aerial fireworks
1-2 during drought conditions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 240.904, Local Government
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) To facilitate compliance with an order adopted under
1-7 Subsection (c), the order must be adopted before:
1-8 (1) June 17 [15] of each year for the Fourth of July
1-9 fireworks season; and
1-10 (2) December 17 [15] of each year for each December
1-11 fireworks season.
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.