By Jones of Lubbock                             H.B. No. 2996

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the reapportionment of certain state representative

 1-3     districts.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 92 and 98, Article II, Chapter 2, Acts

 1-6     of the 72nd Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992, are revised to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 92.  District 92 is composed of Tarrant County tracts

 1-9     1065.08, 1065.09, 1134.03, 1134.04, 1134.05, 1134.07, 1134.08,

1-10     1135.04, 1135.05, 1135.06, 1135.07, 1135.08, 1136.07, 1136.13,

1-11     1136.14, 1136.16, 1136.17, 1136.18, and 1136.19; and that part of

1-12     Tarrant County tract 1065.10 included in block groups 1 and 2 and

1-13     block 301; and that part of Tarrant County tract 1136.09 included

1-14     in block 538; and that part of Tarrant County tract 1136.12

1-15     included in block groups 3 and 4 and blocks 205A, 205B, 205C, 206,

1-16     207, 208, 209A, 209B, 210A, 210B, 211, 212, 213, and 214; and that

1-17     part of Tarrant County tract 1136.15 included in block groups 1, 4,

1-18     5, and blocks 201, 202, 204, and 207.

1-19           Sec. 98.  District 98 is composed of Tarrant County tracts

1-20     1012.01, 1015, 1049, 1050.05, 1050.06, 1102.02, 1103, 1136.11,

1-21     1137.02, 1137.03, 1137.04, 1139.01, 1139.03, 1139.04, and 1139.05;

1-22     and that part of Tarrant County tract 1101.01 included in block

1-23     group 4 and blocks 111, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309,

1-24     310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, and 319; and that part of

 2-1     Tarrant County tract 1101.02 included in block groups 1, 3, 4, 5,

 2-2     and blocks 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211,

 2-3     212, and 213; and that part of Tarrant County tract 1102.01

 2-4     included in block groups 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and blocks 222, and 223;

 2-5     and that part of Tarrant County tract 1133.02 included in block

 2-6     324; and that part of Tarrant County tract 1136.09 included in

 2-7     block groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and blocks 501A, 501B, 502, 503, 504,

 2-8     505A, 505B, 506, 507, 508, 509A, 509B, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514,

 2-9     515, 516, 517, 518, 519A, 519B, 520A, 520B, 521, 522, 523, 524,

2-10     525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537,

2-11     539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, and 547; and that part of

2-12     Tarrant County tract 1136.10 included in block groups 2, 3, 4, and

2-13     blocks 101, 102A, 102C, 102D, 103, 104, 105A, 105C, 105F, 106, 107,

2-14     108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, and 117; and that part

2-15     of Tarrant County tract 1136.12 included in block group 1 and

2-16     blocks 201, 202, 203, and 204; and that part of Tarrant County

2-17     tract 1136.15 included in block group 3 and blocks 203, 205, 206,

2-18     208, 209, 210, and 211; and that part of Tarrant County tract

2-19     1138.01 included in blocks 211, 214, 215A, and 215B; and that part

2-20     of Tarrant County tract 1138.05 included in block group 4 and

2-21     blocks 129, 130, 131, and 310; and that part of Tarrant County

2-22     tract 1139.02 included in block groups 1, 2, 3, and blocks 401,

2-23     402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 410, 511, 512, 513, 516, 519,

2-24     and 520; and that part of Tarrant County tract 1141.01 included in

2-25     blocks 101, 102, 103A, 103B, 103C, 104, 105, 106, 111, 112, 113,

2-26     114, 115, 116, 117, 118A, 118B, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125,

2-27     126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133A, 133B, 134, 135, 136, 137,

 3-1     401A, 401B, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 412A, 412B,

 3-2     413, and 414.

 3-3           SECTION 2.  The districts established by this Act apply to

 3-4     the election of the members of the Texas House of Representatives

 3-5     beginning with the primary and general elections in 1998 for

 3-6     members of the 76th Legislature.  This Act does not affect the

 3-7     membership or districts of the Texas House of Representatives of

 3-8     the 75th Legislature.

 3-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

3-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

3-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

3-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

3-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

3-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

3-15     passage, and it is so enacted.