By: Nixon S.B. No. 550 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to 1-2 receive and administer gifts, grants, and donations. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Title 112, Revised Statutes, is amended by adding 1-5 Article 6447i to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 6447i. GIFTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONS. (a) The 1-7 commission may apply for, request, solicit, contract for, receive, 1-8 accept, and administer gifts, grants, and donations of money or 1-9 other assistance from any source to carry out any commission 1-10 purpose or power authorized by law. 1-11 (b) The commission may not, under Subsection (a) of this 1-12 section, accept a gift or donation of money, or of property having 1-13 a fair market value greater than $1,000, from a party in a 1-14 contested case, as defined in Section 2001.003(1), Government Code, 1-15 during the period from the inception of the contested case until 30 1-16 days after a final decision is rendered in the contested case. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.