1-1 By: Seaman (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 1148
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Economic Development; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to reports related to certain offices within the Texas
1-9 Department of Economic Development.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 481.0067(f), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (f) Not later than October 15 [September 1] of each
1-14 even-numbered year, the department shall submit to the governor and
1-15 the legislature a report containing specific information regarding
1-16 each of the functions performed by the Office of Rural Affairs,
1-17 including recommendations regarding issues that affect the rural
1-18 areas of the state.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 481.0068(e), Government Code, is amended
1-20 to read as follows:
1-21 (e) Not later than October 15 [September 1] of each
1-22 even-numbered year, the department shall submit to the governor and
1-23 the legislature a report containing specific information regarding
1-24 each of the functions performed by the Office of Small Business
1-25 Assistance, including recommendations regarding issues that affect
1-26 small businesses of the state.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33 passage, and it is so enacted.
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