By Seaman H.B. No. 1148
76R4527 WP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reports related to certain offices within the Texas
1-3 Department of Economic Development.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 481.0067(f), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (f) Not later than October 15 [September 1] of each
1-8 even-numbered year, the department shall submit to the governor and
1-9 the legislature a report containing specific information regarding
1-10 each of the functions performed by the Office of Rural Affairs,
1-11 including recommendations regarding issues that affect the rural
1-12 areas of the state.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 481.0068(e), Government Code, is amended
1-14 to read as follows:
1-15 (e) Not later than October 15 [September 1] of each
1-16 even-numbered year, the department shall submit to the governor and
1-17 the legislature a report containing specific information regarding
1-18 each of the functions performed by the Office of Small Business
1-19 Assistance, including recommendations regarding issues that affect
1-20 small businesses of the state.
1-21 SECTION 3. 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.