74R6675 JRD-F
By Patterson H.B. No. 1480
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the contribution of funds to a soil and water
1-3 conservation district.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 201.152(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A county, city, water control and improvement district,
1-8 drainage district, or other political subdivision may contribute
1-9 funds to a conservation district for a specific purpose authorized
1-10 by this chapter or for use in the exercise of any power or duty
1-11 conferred on a conservation district by this chapter that will
1-12 benefit the contributing district or political subdivision. All or
1-13 part of any funds contributed by a county, city, water control and
1-14 improvement district, drainage district, or other political
1-15 subdivision to a <the> conservation district may be used <to use in
1-16 matching all or part of funds received> by the conservation
1-17 district to match funds received from the state <for use in soil
1-18 conservation and flood control programs>.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.