74R6675 JRD-F
          By Patterson                                          H.B. No. 1480
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1480:
          By Walker                                         C.S.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.