By Hilbert H.B. No. 1471 76R5037 JSA-F 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) For purposes of this section, a small business is a 1-20 business with fewer than 50 employees. 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.