By Hilbert                                      H.B. No. 2420

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to requiring a small business impact statement for bills

 1-3     and resolutions.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 314, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Section 314.005 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 314.005.  SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT STATEMENT.  (a)  At the

 1-8     request of the chair of a committee of either house of the

 1-9     legislature, the director shall prepare a statement describing the

1-10     regulatory and fiscal effects on small businesses in this state of

1-11     a proposed bill or resolution pending before the committee.

1-12           (b)  The director shall prepare and deliver the statement to

1-13     the chair of the committee in the same manner as similar statements

1-14     prepared by the director, if any, under the rules of the applicable

1-15     house of the legislature.

1-16           (c)  The impact statement must be attached to the bill or

1-17     resolution following the fiscal note attached under Section

1-18     314.003.

1-19           (d)  For purposes of this section, a small business is a

1-20     business with fewer than 50 employees.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.