By Munoz                                              H.B. No. 3185
       74R5567 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to travel expenses paid by the Hidalgo County Drainage
    1-3  District No. 1.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 may
    1-6  not spend more than $30,000 for the payment of travel expenses
    1-7  during a fiscal year.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  Chapter 1054, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
    1-9  Regular Session, 1989, is repealed.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by Section 1 of this Act
   1-11  applies only to the payment of travel expenses in a fiscal year for
   1-12  the Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 that begins after the
   1-13  effective date of this Act.  During the fiscal year current on the
   1-14  effective date of this Act, the district may pay travel expenses
   1-15  only in accordance with Chapter 1054, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
   1-16  Regular Session, 1989, and that law is continued in effect for that
   1-17  purpose.
   1-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.