AN ACT
 1-1     relating to School Land Board meetings.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 32.016, Natural Resources Code, is
 1-4     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  When necessary, the [The] board shall meet on the first
 1-7     and third Tuesdays of each month in the land office.
 1-8           (c)  The chairman of the board may call special meetings of
 1-9     the board at any time the chairman thinks necessary by giving the
1-10     other members notice.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1560 passed the Senate on
         April 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1560 passed the House on
         May 4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor