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. 1-35 * * * * *