1-1 By: Junell, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1592
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Armbrister
1-8 1. Amend H.B. 1592 by adding a new SECTION 2 to read as
1-9 follows, renumbering any subsequent sections appropriately:
1-10 SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 497, Government Code, is amended
1-11 by adding Section 497.0925 to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 497.0925. BRUSH CONTROL. The department and the State
1-13 Soil and Water Conservation Board may enter into and perform an
1-14 agreement or contract for the use of inmate labor for a brush
1-15 control project under Chapter 203, Agriculture Code.
1-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17 AN ACT
1-18 relating to the state's share of the costs under the brush control
1-19 cost-share program.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Section 203.154(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-22 to read as follows:
1-23 (a) Not more than 80 [70] percent of the total cost of a
1-24 single brush control project may be made available as the state's
1-25 share in cost sharing.
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-28 to a brush control project approved for funding under Chapter 203,
1-29 Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, on or after the effective
1-30 date of this Act. A brush control project approved for funding
1-31 under Chapter 203, Agriculture Code, before the effective date of
1-32 this Act is covered by the law in effect when the project was
1-33 approved for funding, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-34 that purpose.
1-35 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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