1-1  By:  Munoz (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                   H.B. No. 3185
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to travel expenses paid by the Hidalgo County Drainage
    1-9  District No. 1.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  The Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 may
   1-12  not spend more than $30,000 for the payment of travel expenses
   1-13  during a fiscal year.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Chapter 1054, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
   1-15  Regular Session, 1989, is repealed.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by Section 1 of this Act
   1-17  applies only to the payment of travel expenses in a fiscal year for
   1-18  the Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 that begins after the
   1-19  effective date of this Act.  During the fiscal year current on the
   1-20  effective date of this Act, the district may pay travel expenses
   1-21  only in accordance with Chapter 1054, Acts of the 71st Legislature,
   1-22  Regular Session, 1989, and that law is continued in effect for that
   1-23  purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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