By:  Van de Putte                                     H.B. No. 1708
       73R6427 T
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of permits for surveys and work at sites
    1-3  of state archeological landmarks.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 191.054, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  Primary considerations in the issuance of a permit shall
    1-8  be:
    1-9              (1)  the significance of the cultural resource;
   1-10              (2)  the nature of the impact of the project on the
   1-11  cultural resource; and
   1-12              (3)  fiscally appropriate and cost-effective means to
   1-13  mitigate the effect of the project on the cultural resource.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  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.