By Junell                                              H.B. No. 520
       74R3548 SRC-F
                                 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 corrections institutions and to an emergency
    1-4  appropriation to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for
    1-5  acquiring, constructing, and equipping corrections institutions.
    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 Section 49-h, Article III, Texas
    1-9  Constitution, the Texas Public Finance Authority shall issue bonds
   1-10  in the amount of $236.4 million and distribute the proceeds for the
   1-11  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 S.B. No. 5, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
   1-15  Regular Session, 1993.
   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 $236.4 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 Section 49-h, Article
   1-21  III, Texas Constitution, for the two-year period beginning on the
   1-22  date the proceeds are available, for the payment of expenses
   1-23  incurred in acquiring, constructing, or equipping new corrections
   1-24  institutions.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.