1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 4 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 13, 1995; January 16, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 January 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 12, Nays 0; January 18, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for projects 1-9 relating to corrections institutions and to an emergency 1-10 appropriation to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 1-11 acquiring, constructing, and equipping corrections institutions. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. From the unissued balance of general obligation 1-14 bonds that are authorized under Section 49-h, Article III, Texas 1-15 Constitution, the Texas Public Finance Authority shall issue bonds 1-16 in the amount of $236.4 million and distribute the proceeds for the 1-17 purposes specified in the emergency appropriation for the Texas 1-18 Department of Criminal Justice made by Subsection (b) of Section 2 1-19 of this Act. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "current General 1-21 Appropriations Act" means Chapter 1051, Acts of the 73rd 1-22 Legislature, 1993. 1-23 (b) In addition to amounts previously appropriated under the 1-24 current General Appropriations Act or other law for the current 1-25 fiscal biennium, the sum of $236.4 million is appropriated to the 1-26 Texas Department of Criminal Justice from the proceeds of the 1-27 issuance of bonds previously authorized under Section 49-h, Article 1-28 III, Texas Constitution, for the two-year period beginning on the 1-29 date the proceeds are available, for the payment of expenses 1-30 incurred in acquiring, constructing, or equipping new corrections 1-31 institutions. 1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *