By: Sims S.B. No. 117
73R2215 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of revenue from the cigarette tax by the Parks
1-3 and Wildlife Department.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 154.603(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (c) Of the money allocated under Subsection (b)(1), the
1-8 <The> Parks and Wildlife Department may use not more than 50
1-9 percent <the money allocated under Subsection (b)(1) of this
1-10 section> to plan, develop, and acquire<, maintain, and operate>
1-11 state parks and historic sites and not more than 50 percent<. The
1-12 department may not use more than 25 percent of the revenue credited
1-13 to the state parks fund under Subsection (b)(1)> to operate and
1-14 maintain state parks and historic sites.
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.