By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 272
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to
    1-2  apply for and receive money and other assistance for activities
    1-3  relating to alternative fuels research and education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 113.243, Natural Resources Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  The commission may apply for, request, solicit, contract
    1-8  for, receive, and accept money and other assistance from any source
    1-9  for the purposes of this subchapter.  Money received under this
   1-10  subsection shall be deposited in a separate account within the
   1-11  fund.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.