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.