By: Holzheauser H.B. No. 952 73R3989 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to 1-3 apply for and receive money and other assistance for activities 1-4 relating to alternative fuels research and education. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 113.243, Natural Resources Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) The commission may apply for, request, solicit, contract 1-9 for, receive, and accept money and other assistance from any source 1-10 for the purposes of this subchapter. Money received under this 1-11 subsection shall be deposited in a separate account within the 1-12 fund. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.