By Wolens H.B. No. 2810 77R8314 MRB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of statutes that classify political 1-3 subdivisions according to population. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. A statute that applies to a political subdivision 1-6 having a certain population, according to the federal census, 1-7 continues to apply after the most recent federal census to the same 1-8 political subdivisions to which the statute applied under the 1-9 preceding federal census regardless of whether the political 1-10 subdivisions continue to have the population prescribed by the 1-11 statute. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.