By Junell                                             H.B. No. 1592
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the state's share of the costs under the brush control
 1-3     cost-share program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 203.154(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Not more than 80 [70] percent of the total cost of a
 1-8     single brush control project may be made available as the state's
 1-9     share in cost sharing.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-11           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-12     to a brush control project approved for funding under Chapter 203,
1-13     Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, on or after the effective
1-14     date of this Act.  A brush control project approved for funding
1-15     under Chapter 203, Agriculture Code, before the effective date of
1-16     this Act is covered by the law in effect when the project was
1-17     approved for funding, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-18     that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.