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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