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.
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