1-1 By: Isett (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1581 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999; 1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; May 5, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to park passes for volunteer youth groups. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 11.028, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-11 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-12 (e) The commission shall authorize the administrator of a 1-13 state park to provide passes to the state park to members of 1-14 nonprofit youth groups who volunteer to help carry out the duties 1-15 and responsibilities of the department at the park. For purposes 1-16 of this subsection, "nonprofit youth group" means a nonprofit 1-17 organization that: 1-18 (1) is chartered as a national or statewide 1-19 organization; 1-20 (2) is organized and operated exclusively for youth 1-21 recreational or educational purposes and that includes, as part of 1-22 the group's program, components relating to: 1-23 (A) character development; 1-24 (B) citizenship training; 1-25 (C) physical and mental fitness; and 1-26 (D) prevention of drug abuse; 1-27 (3) has been in existence for at least 10 years; and 1-28 (4) has a membership of which at least 65 percent are 1-29 younger than 22 years of age. 1-30 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *