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        relating to the purchase of food and beverages by the Texas Division  | 
      
      
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        of Emergency Management for certain division personnel. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Section 418.052 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 418.052.  USE OF FUNDS TO SUPPORT CERTAIN DIVISION  | 
      
      
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        PERSONNEL.  The division may use appropriated funds to purchase  | 
      
      
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        food and beverages for division personnel who are: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  activated to provide services in response to a  | 
      
      
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        disaster; and | 
      
      
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                     (2)  unable to leave or required to remain at their  | 
      
      
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        assignment areas due to the disaster. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 120 was passed by the House on May 4,  | 
      
      
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        2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 120 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        20, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |