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.