By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 2474

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to appropriations for the preservation, enhancement, and

 1-3     promotion of state historical parks, structures, and sites.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 442, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Section 442.0152 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 442.0152.  APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUPPORT OF STATE

 1-8     HISTORICAL PARKS.  (a) The commission may receive appropriations

 1-9     for the preservation, enhancement, and promotion of state

1-10     historical parks, structures, and sites.

1-11           (b)  The commission may expend those funds for historical

1-12     parks, structures, and sites under the jurisdiction of the Parks

1-13     and Wildlife Department pursuant to an agreement executed between

1-14     the commission and the department.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.