General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 62
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58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
MENTAL RETARDATION-RESEARCH
CHAPTER 42
H. B. No. 156
An Act amending Section 14 of Senate Bill No. 221, Chapter 119, Acts 1955, Fifty-
fourth Legislature, Regular Session, codified as Article 3871b, Texas Civil
Statutes, authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special
Schools to use any personnel and facilities under its control and manage-
ment for carrying out research in mental retardation; repealing all laws
or parts of laws in conflict; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 14 of Senate Bill No. 221, Chapter 119, Acts 1955,
Fifty-fourth Legislature, Regular Session, codified as Article 3871b, Tex-
as Civil Statutes, is hereby amended 41 to read as follows:
"Sec. 14. The Board may, with funds available for such purpose from
any source, do research to determine the causes, proper treatment and
diagnosis of mental retardation and may use any personnel and facilities
under its control and management for carrying out such research."
Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 3. The fact that existing research facilities under the control
and management of the Board would be of greater benefit to the people
of this State if research in mental retardation could also be carried on in
such facilities creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended, and
that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage,
and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, February 5, 1963, by a non-record vote; passed
the Senate, March 28, 1963, by a viva-voce vote.
Approved April 4, 1963.
Effective 90 days after date of adjournment.41. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 3871b. 14.
Ch. 42
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