1-1  By:  Patterson (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)               H.B. No. 1480
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the contribution of funds to a soil and water
    1-9  conservation district.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 201.152(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
   1-12  to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  A county, city, water control and improvement district,
   1-14  drainage district, or other political subdivision may contribute
   1-15  funds to a conservation district for a specific purpose authorized
   1-16  by this chapter or for use in the exercise of any power or duty
   1-17  conferred on a conservation district by this chapter that will
   1-18  benefit the contributing district or political subdivision. All or
   1-19  part of any funds contributed by a county, city, water control and
   1-20  improvement district, drainage district, or other political
   1-21  subdivision to a <the> conservation district may be used <to use in
   1-22  matching all or part of funds received> by the conservation
   1-23  district to match funds received from the state <for use in soil
   1-24  conservation and flood control programs>.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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