By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 171
       73R1910 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for projects
    1-3  relating to state prisons and to an emergency appropriation to the
    1-4  Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the operation of state
    1-5  prisons, discretionary grants, and payments to counties.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  From the unissued balance of general obligation
    1-8  bonds that are authorized under Article III, Section 49-h, of the
    1-9  Texas Constitution, the Texas Public Finance Authority shall issue
   1-10  bonds in the amount of $125 million and distribute the proceeds for
   1-11  the purposes specified in the emergency appropriation for the Texas
   1-12  Department of Criminal Justice made by Section 2(b) of this Act.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  In this section, "current General
   1-14  Appropriations Act" means H.B. No.  1, Acts of the 72nd
   1-15  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991.
   1-16        (b)  In addition to amounts previously appropriated under the
   1-17  current General Appropriations Act or other law for the current
   1-18  fiscal biennium, the sum of $125 million is appropriated to the
   1-19  Texas Department of Criminal Justice from the proceeds of the
   1-20  issuance of bonds previously authorized under Article III, Section
   1-21  49-h, of the Texas Constitution for the two-year period beginning
   1-22  on the date the proceeds are available:
   1-23              (1)  for the payment of expenses incurred in acquiring,
   1-24  constructing, or equipping new prisons; and
    2-1              (2)  to repay items of appropriation in the current
    2-2  General Appropriations Act or Article 22, Chapter 10, Acts of the
    2-3  72nd Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1991, from which funds were
    2-4  transferred or expended for start-up expenses incurred in
    2-5  acquiring, constructing, or equipping new prisons.
    2-6        (c)  In addition to amounts previously appropriated under the
    2-7  current General Appropriations Act or other law for the current
    2-8  fiscal biennium, the sum of $125.8 million is appropriated to the
    2-9  Texas Department of Criminal Justice from the economic
   2-10  stabilization fund for the period beginning on the effective date
   2-11  of this Act and ending on August 31, 1993, for:
   2-12              (1)  the operation of additional capacity;
   2-13              (2)  the operation of intermediate sanction facilities;
   2-14              (3)  discretionary grants;
   2-15              (4)  payments to counties in the manner provided by
   2-16  Section 22.01(a)(1), Chapter 10, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 2nd
   2-17  Called Session, 1991, and court-ordered payments to counties; and
   2-18              (5)  repayment of items of appropriation in the current
   2-19  General Appropriations Act or Article 22, Chapter 10, Acts of the
   2-20  72nd Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1991, from which funds were
   2-21  transferred or expended for the payment of expenses incurred for
   2-22  the purposes listed in Subdivisions (1)-(4) of this subsection.
   2-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-2  passage, and it is so enacted.