1-1 By: Horn (Senate Sponsor - Rosson) H.B. No. 2180 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995; 1-3 May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to financial assistance for aviation facilities 1-9 development. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subdivision 10(d), Section 6, Chapter 344, Acts 1-12 of the 49th Legislature, 1945 (Article 46c-6, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-13 Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-14 (d)(1) Prior to approving any financial assistance under 1-15 this Act the commission or its authorized representative shall hold 1-16 a public hearing at which all interested parties shall have an 1-17 opportunity to be heard. No loan shall be made without a majority 1-18 vote of the entire commission in favor thereof. No grant contract 1-19 shall be made without a two-thirds vote of the entire commission in 1-20 favor thereof. 1-21 (2)(A) In the case of an emergency, the executive 1-22 director of the department or his or her designee may, without 1-23 holding a public hearing, award a loan or grant in accordance with 1-24 rules adopted by the commission. 1-25 (B) For purposes of this paragraph, an emergency 1-26 is any situation or condition at a general aviation airport which 1-27 requires immediate attention due to an existing unsafe condition. 1-28 (C) The unsafe condition should be of sufficient 1-29 concern to require the filing of a Notice to Airman with the 1-30 Federal Aviation Administration under FAA Order 7930.2E until the 1-31 safety concern has been resolved. 1-32 (D) Prior to the award of a contract under the 1-33 authority of this paragraph, the executive director or his or her 1-34 designee must certify in writing the fact and nature of the 1-35 emergency giving rise to the award. 1-36 (E) Not later than the fifth working day 1-37 following the date on which the contract is awarded, the executive 1-38 director shall furnish to each member of the commission written 1-39 notification of the details of the emergency conditions and the 1-40 award. 1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-47 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-48 * * * * *