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.