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. 1-27 * * * * *