By: Turner, B. H.B. No. 60
73R1397 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of revenue from the cigarette tax by the Parks
1-3 and Wildlife Department.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 154.603(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (c) The Parks and Wildlife Department may use the money
1-8 allocated under Subsection (b)(1) of this section to plan, develop,
1-9 acquire, maintain, and operate state parks and historic sites.
1-10 <The department may not use more than 25 percent of the revenue
1-11 credited to the state parks fund under Subsection (b)(1) to operate
1-12 and maintain state parks and historic sites.>
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.