74R9628 DRH-D By Rodriguez H.B. No. 2696 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2696: By Hill C.S.H.B. No. 2696 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the ability of a municipality to participate in a 1-3 federal program for which local matching funds are required. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 380, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 380.003 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 380.003. APPLICATION FOR MATCHING FUNDS FROM FEDERAL 1-8 GOVERNMENT. A municipality may, as an agency of the state, provide 1-9 matching funds for a federal program that requires local matching 1-10 funds from a state agency to the extent state agencies that are 1-11 eligible decline to participate or do not fully participate in the 1-12 program. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.