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Amend SB 521, on third reading, immediately before the
SECTION providing the effective date of the bill, by inserting the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION _____. (a) If in a final judgement a court finds
that the sections of this Act that amend the Local Government Code
constitute a subject separate from the other sections of this Act
and, therefore, cause a violation of Section 35(a), Article III,
Texas Constitution, the court shall sever the sections amending the
Local Government Code and shall give effect only to the remaining
sections of the Act.
(b) For purposes of this section, a judgment is final on the
date on which all appeals of the judgment have been exhausted or
waived.