1-1 By: Tallas (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 2612 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993; 1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 1-4 Resources; May 7, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 7, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Sims x 1-9 Truan x 1-10 Armbrister x 1-11 Barrientos x 1-12 Bivins x 1-13 Brown x 1-14 Carriker x 1-15 Lucio x 1-16 Montford x 1-17 Ratliff x 1-18 Shelley x 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to the membership of the Coastal Coordination Council. 1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-23 SECTION 1. Section 33.203(2), Natural Resources Code, is 1-24 amended to read as follows: 1-25 (2) "Council" means the Coastal Coordination Council, 1-26 which shall consist of the commissioner, the attorney general, the 1-27 chair of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, the chair of the Texas 1-28 Water Commission, a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas, a 1-29 member of the Texas Transportation Commission, the commissioner of 1-30 agriculture, and one city or county elected official and one 1-31 resident from the coastal area appointed by the governor for 1-32 two-year terms. 1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * * 1-41 Austin, 1-42 Texas 1-43 May 7, 1993 1-44 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-45 President of the Senate 1-46 Sir: 1-47 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B. 1-48 No. 2612, have had the same under consideration, and I am 1-49 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation 1-50 that it do pass and be printed. 1-51 Sims, 1-52 Chairman 1-53 * * * * * 1-54 WITNESSES 1-55 FOR AGAINST ON 1-56 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-57 Name: Anne S. Wynne x 1-58 Representing: Tx Dept of Transportation 1-59 City: Austin 1-60 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-61 Name: Bill Peacock x 1-62 Representing: Tx Dept of Agriculture 1-63 City: Austin 1-64 -------------------------------------------------------------------