By:  Bosse                                            H.B. No. 1851
       73R5944 GCH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the state airport funding program.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 8A, Chapter 344, Acts of the 49th
    1-5  Legislature, 1945 (Article 46c-8A, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
    1-6  is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 8A.  State Airport Funding Program.  The Texas
    1-8  Department of Transportation is the agent of this state and of each
    1-9  political subdivision of this state for the purpose of applying
   1-10  for, receiving, and disbursing federal funds for the benefit of
   1-11  general aviation airports, except reliever airports, under the
   1-12  Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (49 App. U.S.C. Sections
   1-13  2204-2205), or other applicable federal law.  The department shall
   1-14  provide for the pass through of federal funds to reimburse local
   1-15  sponsors for airport improvement projects.  The department is
   1-16  prohibited from:
   1-17              (1)  participating in or exercising control in the
   1-18  management and operation of a sponsor's airport; or
   1-19              (2)  acting as a contracting agent for or a provider of
   1-20  consulting, design, or construction services, except at the
   1-21  specific request of a local sponsor.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.