By Ritter H.B. No. 2272 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to advisory committees to the Parks and Wildlife 1-3 Commission. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Parks and Wildlife 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 11.0162 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11.0162. ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO COMMISSION. (a) The 1-8 chairman may appoint committees to advise the commission on issues 1-9 under its jurisdiction. 1-10 (b) The chairman may adopt rules that set the membership, 1-11 terms of service, qualifications, operating procedures, and other 1-12 standards to ensure the effectiveness of an advisory committee 1-13 appointed under this section. 1-14 SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Parks and 1-15 Wildlife Code are repealed: 1-16 (1) Sections 22.002-22.005; 1-17 (2) Sections 22.262-22.264; 1-18 (3) Section 28.003; 1-19 (4) Section 49.016; and 1-20 (5) Section 89.021(d). 1-21 SECTION 3. Section 22.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-22 amended to read as follows: 1-23 Sec. 22.013. MEETINGS. (a) The San Jacinto Historical 1-24 Advisory Board shall meet quarterly to review the policies and 2-1 operations of the San Jacinto Battleground and to advise the 2-2 department on the proper historical development of the 2-3 battleground. 2-4 (b) The board shall prepare minutes for all board meetings 2-5 and deliver them to the commission. The board shall deliver the 2-6 board's bylaws and any changes made to the bylaws to the 2-7 commission. Any minutes or bylaws delivered to the commission 2-8 shall be delivered by the member of the board who is an employee of 2-9 the department. 2-10 SECTION 4. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-11 (b) The term of a member of an advisory committee, 2-12 commission, or board created under Section 22.002, 22.262, 28.003, 2-13 49.016, or 89.021(d), Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2-14 2 of this Act, who is serving on August 31, 1999, expires September 2-15 1, 1999. 2-16 (c) Any bequest, gift, or grant of money or property 2-17 accepted by the Fannin State Park Advisory Commission under Section 2-18 22.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act, 2-19 that is held by the commission on August 31, 1999, is transferred 2-20 on September 1, 1999, to the Parks and Wildlife Department; if a 2-21 grantor of transferred funds or property specified a purpose for 2-22 which the funds or property were to be used, the department shall 2-23 use those funds or property for the specified purpose. 2-24 (d) The department shall retain all data collected under 2-25 Section 22.005, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of 2-26 this Act, and shall use it to depict the story of Texas history and 2-27 independence at the battleground. 3-1 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.