By Madden, McCall
H.B. No. 1625
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of certain state representative districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 66 and 67, Article II, Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature,
3rd Called Session, 1992, are revised to read as follows:
SECTION 66. District 66 is composed of Collin County tracts 0316.01, 0316.03,
0316.08, 0316.09, 0316.10, 0316.12, 0316.13, 0316.16, 0316.17, 0316.18, 0316.19, 0316.20,
0316.21, 0317.02, and 0317.98; and that part of Collin County tract 0316.15 included in block
groups 4, 5, 6, and blocks 104, 105, 106, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 317, 318, 319, and 320; and
that part of Collin County tract 0318.02 included in block groups 1, 2, 3, and blocks 401, 402,
403, 404, 405, 406A, 406B, 407, 408, 409, 410, 412A, 412B, 414A, and 414B; and that part of
Collin County tract 0318.03 included in block groups 1 and 2 and blocks 301, 302, 303, 304,
305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311A, 311B, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410A,
410B, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, and 423; and that part of Collin
County tract 0319 included in block 105.
SECTION 67. District 67 is composed of Collin County tracts 0304, 0310, 0313.02,
0313.03, 0313.04, 0314.01, 0314.02, 0315.01, 0315.02, 0316.05, 0316.11, 0316.14, 0318.98,
0320.03, 0320.04, 0320.05, 0320.07, 0320.08, and 0320.98; and that part of Collin County tract
0303 included in block group 5 and blocks 134A, 134B, 175A, 175B, 176A, 176B, 176C, 177A,
177B, 178A, 178B, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188A, 188B, 189, 190A, 190B,
407, 408, 409, 411, 413, 414, 415, 416A, 416B, 417A, 417B, 417C, 417D, 417E, 418A, 418B,
419A, 419B, 420A, 420B, 421A, 421B, 422, 430A, 430B, 430C, 431A, 431B, 431C, 432A,
432B, 432C, 432D, 432E, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, and 499; and that part of
Collin County tract 0305 included in block groups 2 and 3 and blocks 106A, 106B, 106C, 122A,
122B, 122C, 122D, 122E, 122F, 122G, 122H, 122J, 122K, 122L, 123A, 123B, 123C, 123D,
124A, 124B, 126A, 126B, 126C, 127A, 127B, 127C, 128, and 405; and that part of Collin
County tract 0309 included in block group 5; and that part of Collin County tract 0311 included
in blocks 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, and 299Z; and that part of Collin
County tract 0316.15 included in block group 2 and blocks 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110,
114, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 321, 322,
323, and 324; and that part of Collin County tract 0318.02 included in blocks 411A, 411B, 413,
and 415; and that part of Collin County tract 0318.03 included in blocks 312 and 411; and that
part of Collin County tract 0319 included in block groups 2 and 3 and blocks 101, 102, 103, 104,
106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124,
125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, and 134.
SECTION 2. Section 1, Article III, Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 3rd Called
Session, 1992, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) In this Act, "block group" means all the blocks in a tract or BNA that have the same
first digit, according to the Redistricting Map Data Base for the State of Texas described by
Subsection (a) of this section. A block group is designated by the common first digit of all the
blocks in the block group. For example, blocks numbered 301, 342A, 342B, and 399Z located in
a single tract would all belong to the block group 3 for that tract, and all the blocks in that tract
beginning with a 3 would constitute block group 3.
SECTION 3. (a) The changes made by this Act apply to the election of the members of
the Texas House of Representatives beginning with the general election in 1996 for members of
the 75th Legislature.
(b) The changes made by this Act do not affect the membership or districts of the
Texas House of Representatives of the 74th Legislature. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a
member of the Texas House of Representatives of the 74th Legislature and a special election is
held to fill the vacancy, the election shall be held in the district as it existed when the vacating
member was elected.
SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the
calendars in both houses create 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 this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.