By Horn                                               H.B. No. 2517
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to grant applications to the Smart Jobs Program Fund.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 481.155., Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 481.155.  GRANTS.  Subsection (f) A grant may not be
    1-7  awarded for a project if the project will impair existing contracts
    1-8  for services or collective bargaining agreements, that the
    1-9  applicant is currently abiding by, except that a project
   1-10  inconsistent with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement
   1-11  may be undertaken with the written concurrence of the collective
   1-12  bargaining unit and the employer or employers who are parties to
   1-13  the agreement.
   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.