By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1560
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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) as
 1-5     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 he thinks necessary by giving the other
1-10     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.