By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 1277
       74R5775 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a review of constitutionally dedicated funds by the
    1-3  Funds Review Advisory Committee.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 403.096, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  The committee shall review all constitutionally
    1-8  dedicated funds.  In addition to other information included in its
    1-9  report under this section due on or before November 1, 1996, the
   1-10  committee shall recommend whether the 75th Legislature, Regular
   1-11  Session, 1997, should propose amendments to the constitution to
   1-12  abolish or alter the restrictions on any of those funds.  The
   1-13  report must also include information to assist the legislature in
   1-14  making that determination.  This subsection expires September 1,
   1-15  1997.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  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,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.