1-1     By:  Hunter, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)        H.B. No. 1673

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; May 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 9, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to payment of per diem to members of the Texas  State

 1-9     Library and Archives Commission.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 441.001(n), Government Code, is amended

1-12     to read as follows:

1-13           (n)  A member of the commission may not receive compensation

1-14     for services as a member but is entitled to the per diem provided

1-15     by the General Appropriations Act for attending a meeting of the

1-16     commission.  A member is also entitled to reimbursement for actual

1-17     expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the performance of

1-18     those services, subject to any applicable limitation on

1-19     reimbursement provided by the General Appropriations Act.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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