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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