By:  Smith, Ashley                                    H.B. No. 1948
       73R6600 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the Texas Partnership for Economic
    1-3  Development.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 481.357, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  The partnership board may organize the partnership as a
    1-8  nonprofit corporation under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act
    1-9  (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) to carry
   1-10  out the powers and duties of the partnership.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.