1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 825
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1999; March 4, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0;
1-6 April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 825 By: Ellis
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to county restriction on the use of aerial fireworks
1-11 during drought conditions.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 240.904, Local Government
1-14 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (d) To facilitate compliance with an order adopted under
1-16 Subsection (c), the order must be adopted before:
1-17 (1) June 17 [15] of each year for the Fourth of July
1-18 fireworks season; and
1-19 (2) December 17 [15] of each year for each December
1-20 fireworks season.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27 passage, and it is so enacted.
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