73R6067 MJW-F
          By Johnson                                            H.B. No. 1687
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to increasing grant amounts for certain agricultural
    1-3  programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 44.004(e), Agriculture Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  A grant under this section may not exceed $50,000
    1-8  <$30,000>.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 44.005(e), Agriculture Code, is amended
   1-10  to read as follows:
   1-11        (e)  A grant under this section may not exceed $50,000
   1-12  <$30,000>.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  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.