By Rodriguez H.B. No. 2696 74R6555 DRH-D 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. A municipality may, as an agency of the state, 1-6 provide matching funds for a federal program that requires local 1-7 matching funds from a state agency, if all other eligible state 1-8 agencies decline to provide funds to participate in the program. 1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-15 passage, and it is so enacted.