1-1  By:  Haley                                              S.B. No. 98
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 1993; January 13, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
    1-4  January 14, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  7, Nays 0; January 14, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Haley              x                               
    1-9        Moncrief           x                               
   1-10        Ellis              x                               
   1-11        Montford           x                               
   1-12        Shapiro            x                               
   1-13        Truan              x                               
   1-14        Turner             x                               
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and organization
   1-18  of the County Park Compost Program.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  SHORT TITLE.  This Act may be known and cited as
   1-21  the County Park Compost Program Act.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  PURPOSE.  It is the intent of the legislature
   1-23  that those counties having county parks and wild or landscaped
   1-24  recreational areas shall bring their land use into compliance with
   1-25  present or soon-to-be accepted standards of economic and
   1-26  ecologically sound and prudent practices and policies.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  CREATION.  In furtherance of the goals outlined
   1-28  above, the County Park Compost Program is created.
   1-29        SECTION 4.  IMPLEMENTATION.  A county desiring to participate
   1-30  in the program shall, by order of the county commissioners court,
   1-31  on or after the effective date of this Act and before the next
   1-32  countywide election, designate one person in the personnel division
   1-33  of the county assigned to the care and maintenance of county parks
   1-34  and wild or landscaped recreational areas as County Park Compost
   1-35  Program Coordinator, who shall devote as much working time as is
   1-36  necessary and have as much assistance as may be required to
   1-37  accomplish the purposes of the program.
   1-38        SECTION 5.  FUNDING.  The county commissioners court is
   1-39  authorized to seek bequests, donations, grants, and other money,
   1-40  goods, and services from federal, state, and private sources to
   1-41  finance and further the goals of the program, but it may not levy
   1-42  any tax nor be the recipient of any legislative appropriation
   1-43  whatsoever, nor is the state liable for debts or other obligations
   1-44  incurred by a county in implementing or preparing to implement this
   1-45  Act.
   1-46        SECTION 6.  REPORT.  A report on county compost activity
   1-47  shall be presented to the commissioners court at least annually.
   1-48        SECTION 7.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-49  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-50  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-51  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-52  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-53  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-54  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-56                                                         Austin,
   1-57  Texas
   1-58                                                         January 14, 1993
   1-59  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-60  President of the Senate
   1-61  Sir:
   1-62  We, your Committee on Administration to which was referred S.B.
   1-63  No. 98, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-64  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-65  pass and be printed.
   1-66                                                         Haley,
   1-67  Chairman
   1-68                               WITNESSES
    2-1  No witnesses appeared to testify for, against, or on the bill.