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.