1-1     By:  McClendon, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)   H.B. No. 128
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to participation of the Texas Department of Criminal
 1-9     Justice in certain food bank programs.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 497.113, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-13           (d)  The department is encouraged to enter into agreements
1-14     with nonprofit food banks.  An agreement under this subsection may
1-15     provide that a food bank will supply seed and fertilizer to the
1-16     department and that the department will in turn provide to the food
1-17     bank agricultural products grown from the seed and with the
1-18     assistance of the fertilizer. For the purpose of this subsection,
1-19     "nonprofit food bank" means a nonprofit organization that solicits,
1-20     warehouses, and redistributes edible food to agencies that feed
1-21     needy families and individuals.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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