1-1     By:  Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)                   H.B. No. 16

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural

 1-4     Resources; April 28, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to authority of the comptroller to enter certain

 1-9     agreements with credit card issuers benefitting state parks.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 403.026 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 403.026.  CREDIT CARD AGREEMENT BENEFITTING STATE.  (a)

1-14     The comptroller may enter an agreement with a credit card issuer

1-15     under which:

1-16                 (1)  the issuer is required to pay to the comptroller

1-17     an amount of money based on the use of the credit card by the

1-18     holders of the credit card; and

1-19                 (2)  the issuer is permitted to represent to the public

1-20     that use of the credit card benefits state parks and to design

1-21     credit cards issued under the agreement to indicate this benefit.

1-22           (b)  The form of any representation of benefit to state parks

1-23     and the design of credit cards issued under the agreement must be

1-24     approved by the comptroller.

1-25           (c)  The comptroller shall deposit money received under this

1-26     section to the credit of the state parks account under Section

1-27     11.035, Parks and Wildlife Code.

1-28           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.

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