By Horn                                               H.B. No. 2517
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2517:
          By Horn                                           C.S.H.B. No. 2517
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to grants awarded under the smart jobs fund program.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 481.155(f), Government Code, as added by
    1-5  S.B. No. 130, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993,
    1-6  is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  A grant may not be awarded for a project if the project
    1-8  will impair existing contracts for services or collective
    1-9  bargaining agreements to which the grant applicant is subject at
   1-10  the time of the application, except that a project inconsistent
   1-11  with the terms of the applicant's collective bargaining agreement
   1-12  may be undertaken with the written concurrence of the collective
   1-13  bargaining unit and the employer or employers who are parties to
   1-14  the agreement.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.