76R8086 MI-D By Isett H.B. No. 1581 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1581: By Cook C.S.H.B. No. 1581 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to park passes for volunteer youth groups. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 11.028, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) The commission shall authorize the administrator of a 1-7 state park to provide passes to the state park to members of 1-8 nonprofit youth groups who volunteer to help carry out the duties 1-9 and responsibilities of the department at the park. For purposes 1-10 of this subsection, "nonprofit youth group" means a nonprofit 1-11 organization that: 1-12 (1) is chartered as a national or statewide 1-13 organization; 1-14 (2) is organized and operated exclusively for youth 1-15 recreational or educational purposes and that includes, as part of 1-16 the group's program, components relating to: 1-17 (A) character development; 1-18 (B) citizenship training; 1-19 (C) physical and mental fitness; and 1-20 (D) prevention of drug abuse; 1-21 (3) has been in existence for at least 10 years; and 1-22 (4) has a membership of which at least 65 percent are 1-23 younger than 22 years of age. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.