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.