1-1 By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Parker) H.B. No. 315
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 24, 1993;
1-3 March 25, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to a promotion and development fund of a navigation
1-22 district.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Sections 60.201 and 60.202, Water Code, are
1-25 amended to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 60.201. PURPOSE. Districts in this state <which
1-27 include cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants and> which operate
1-28 ports or waterways and harbor and terminal facilities are in keen
1-29 competition with other ports, waterways, harbors, and terminals
1-30 outside the state and with privately owned port and terminal
1-31 facilities inside the state. Well-situated and well-equipped ports
1-32 and waterways in other nearby states and owners of substantial port
1-33 and terminal facilities located inside and outside the state are
1-34 advertising, promoting and developing their competing ports,
1-35 waterways, harbors, and terminals through expenditure of large
1-36 amounts of money without any audit or restriction on expenditure of
1-37 the money. This activity or expenditure is thwarting and impeding
1-38 the use, progress, and development of the ports, waterways,
1-39 harbors, and terminals of this state. Continuation of this
1-40 hardship and injustice can best be met and coped with by more
1-41 liberal use of some relatively small fund set aside from the gross
1-42 income from operations of the ports of this state to be used in the
1-43 manner provided in this subchapter.
1-44 Sec. 60.202. CREATION OF FUND. A district organized under
1-45 general or special law <and containing a city of 100,000 or more
1-46 population, according to the last preceding federal census,> may
1-47 set aside out of current income from its operations a promotion and
1-48 development fund of not more than five percent of its gross income
1-49 from operations in each calendar year.
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.
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 Austin,
1-59 Texas
1-60 May 3, 1993
1-61 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-62 President of the Senate
1-63 Sir:
1-64 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-65 No. 315, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-66 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-67 pass and be printed.
1-68 Sims,
2-1 Chairman
2-2 * * * * *
2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 315.