1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 833
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 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate public
1-9 nuisances.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 343.011, Health and
1-12 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) This section applies to the unincorporated area of a
1-14 county with a population of 50,000 [125,000] or more.
1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
1-17 act that constitutes a public nuisance under Section 343.011,
1-18 Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that is committed
1-19 on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this
1-20 section, an act is committed on or after the effective date of this
1-21 Act only if an element of the act occurs on or after that date.
1-22 (c) An act that constitutes a public nuisance under Section
1-23 343.011, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, that is
1-24 committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-25 law in effect when the act was committed, and the former law is
1-26 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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