1-1  By:  Martin, Gray (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)         H.B. No. 227
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
    1-3  May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; May 28, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Ratliff            x                               
    1-9        Haley                                         x    
   1-10        Barrientos                                    x    
   1-11        Bivins             x                               
   1-12        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-13        Luna                       x                       
   1-14        Montford           x                               
   1-15        Shapiro            x                               
   1-16        Sibley             x                               
   1-17        Turner             x                               
   1-18        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to establishing the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores.
   1-22        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-23        SECTION 1.  Chapter 86, Education Code, is amended by adding
   1-24  Subchapter E to read as follows:
   1-25             SUBCHAPTER E.  OTHER COMPONENTS OF UNIVERSITY
   1-26        Sec. 86.81.  CENTER FOR TEXAS BEACHES AND SHORES.  (a)  The
   1-27  Center for Texas Beaches and Shores is a component of Texas A&M
   1-28  University.
   1-29        (b)  The center is under the management and direction of the
   1-30  board.
   1-31        (c)  The center shall:
   1-32              (1)  research problems at coastal conservation areas;
   1-33              (2)  study the effects of nature and humans on coastal
   1-34  conservation areas;
   1-35              (3)  develop ways to control the loss of shoreline in
   1-36  coastal conservation areas and to avoid ecological damage to
   1-37  coastal conservation areas using innovative technologies; and
   1-38              (4)  cooperate and consult with the General Land Office
   1-39  and other state agencies to manage coastal conservation areas.
   1-40        (d)  The board may employ personnel for the center, including
   1-41  experts in coastal engineering, marine geology, ecology, biology,
   1-42  and economics.
   1-43        (e)  The board may accept a gift or grant from any public or
   1-44  private source for the benefit of the center.
   1-45        (f)  In this section:
   1-46              (1)  "Center" means the Center for Texas Beaches and
   1-47  Shores.
   1-48              (2)  "Coastal conservation areas" has the meaning
   1-49  assigned by Section 33.052(d), Natural Resources Code.
   1-50        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-51  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-52  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-53  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-54  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-55  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-56  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-58                                                         Austin,
   1-59  Texas
   1-60                                                         May 28, 1993
   1-61  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-62  President of the Senate
   1-63  Sir:
   1-64  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No. 227,
   1-65  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-66  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-67  pass and be printed.
   1-68                                                         Ratliff,
    2-1  Chairman
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    2-3                               WITNESSES
    2-4  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 227.