Amend SB 1509 as follows:
      Strike all below the enacting clause and substitute the
following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 161.236, Natural Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 161.236.  NUMBER OF TRACTS PURCHASED.  The board may
promulgate rules to determine the number of tracts of land that a
<No> veteran may purchase <more than one tract of land> under this
chapter.
      SECTION 2.  Section 162.011, Natural Resources Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to
read as follows:
      (c)  The final principal payment on any loan under this
chapter shall be made not later than 40 years after the date of the
loan.  The board shall determine the maximum principal amount of
loans to any veteran that may be outstanding at any time, except
that amounts allocable to a home mortgage loan may not exceed the
maximum amount allowable for a similar home mortgage loan through
the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any successor
agency <a loan under this chapter to a veteran to finance the
acquisition of a home may not exceed $45,000>.
      (f)  The board may by rule determine, from time to time, the
number of loans that a veteran may receive under this chapter.
      SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.