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.
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