By Hilbert, et al.                                    H.B. No. 1471
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring a small business impact statement for bills
 1-3     and resolutions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 314, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Section 314.005 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 314.005.  SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT STATEMENT.  (a)  At the
 1-8     request of the chair of a committee of either house of the
 1-9     legislature, the director shall prepare a statement describing the
1-10     regulatory and fiscal effects on small businesses in this state of
1-11     a proposed bill or resolution pending before the committee.
1-12           (b)  The director shall prepare and deliver the statement to
1-13     the chair of the committee in the same manner as similar statements
1-14     prepared by the director, if any, under the rules of the applicable
1-15     house of the legislature.
1-16           (c)  The impact statement must be attached to the bill or
1-17     resolution following the fiscal note attached under Section
1-18     314.003.
1-19           (d)  In this section, "small business" has the meaning
1-20     assigned by Section 2006.001.
1-21           SECTION 2.  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.