1-1     By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1560
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to School Land Board meetings.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 32.016, Natural Resources Code, is
1-11     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (a)  When necessary, the [The] board shall meet on the first
1-14     and third Tuesdays of each month in the land office.
1-15           (c)  The chairman of the board may call special meetings of
1-16     the board at any time the chairman thinks necessary by giving the
1-17     other members notice.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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