74R8879 JRD-F
          By Kamel                                               H.B. No. 158
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 158:
          By Edwards                                         C.S.H.B. No. 158
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing the provision of state financial assistance
    1-3  to the Civil Air Patrol, Texas Wing, to support the wing's
    1-4  disaster-related activities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 418.0461 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 418.0461.  ASSISTANCE TO CIVIL AIR PATROL.  The division
    1-9  may provide financial assistance to the Civil Air Patrol, Texas
   1-10  Wing, to support the wing's disaster-related activities that assist
   1-11  the state and state agencies and the wing's training and exercises
   1-12  associated with those activities.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.