1-1  By:  Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Madla)               H.B. No. 2696
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-3  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the ability of a municipality to participate in a
   1-10  federal program for which local matching funds are required.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Chapter 380, Local Government Code, is amended by
   1-13  adding Section 380.003 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 380.003.  APPLICATION FOR MATCHING FUNDS FROM FEDERAL
   1-15  GOVERNMENT.  A municipality may, as an agency of the state, provide
   1-16  matching funds for a federal program that requires local matching
   1-17  funds from a state agency to the extent state agencies that are
   1-18  eligible decline to participate or do not fully participate in the
   1-19  program.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-26  passage, and it is so enacted.
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