By Wolens                                             H.B. No. 2810
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                                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.