By Hunter, et al.                                     H.B. No. 1673

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to payment of per diem to members of the Texas  State

 1-3     Library and Archives Commission.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 441.001(n), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (n)  A member of the commission may not receive compensation

 1-8     for services as a member but is entitled to the per diem provided

 1-9     by the General Appropriations Act for attending a meeting of the

1-10     commission.  A member is also entitled to reimbursement for actual

1-11     expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the performance of

1-12     those services, subject to any applicable limitation on

1-13     reimbursement provided by the General Appropriations Act.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.