By Ritter H.B. No. 2272 76R5835 WP-F 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 The following provisions of the Parks and 1-15 Wildlife Code are repealed: 1-16 (1) Sections 22.002-22.005; 1-17 (2) Sections 22.012-22.015; 1-18 (3) Sections 22.262-22.264; 1-19 (4) Section 28.003; 1-20 (5) Section 49.016; and 1-21 (6) Section 89.021(d). 1-22 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 (b) The term of a member of an advisory committee, 1-24 commission, or board created under Section 22.002, 22.012, 22.262, 2-1 28.003, 49.016, or 89.021(d), Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by 2-2 Section 2 of this Act, who is serving on August 31, 1999, expires 2-3 September 1, 1999. 2-4 (c) Any bequest, gift, or grant of money or property 2-5 accepted by the Fannin State Park Advisory Commission under Section 2-6 22.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act, 2-7 or by the San Jacinto Historical Advisory Board under Section 2-8 22.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act, 2-9 that is held by the board or commission on August 31, 1999, is 2-10 transferred on September 1, 1999, to the Parks and Wildlife 2-11 Department; if a grantor of transferred funds or property specified 2-12 a purpose for which the funds or property were to be used, the 2-13 department shall use those funds or property for the specified 2-14 purpose. 2-15 (d) The department shall retain all data collected under 2-16 Sections 22.005 and 22.015, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by 2-17 Section 2 of this Act, and shall use it to depict the story of 2-18 Texas history and independence at the appropriate battleground. 2-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-25 Amend H.B. No. 2272 as follows: 2-26 (1) On page 1, strike line 17, and renumber subsequent 2-27 subdivisions appropriately. 3-1 (2) On page 1, between lines 21 and 22, insert a new SECTION 3-2 3 of the bill to read as follows and renumber subsequent sections 3-3 appropriately: 3-4 SECTION 3. Section 22.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 3-5 amended to read as follows: 3-6 Sec. 22.013. MEETINGS. (a) The San Jacinto Historical 3-7 Advisory Board shall meet quarterly to review the policies and 3-8 operations of the San Jacinto Battleground and to advise the 3-9 department on the proper historical development of the 3-10 battleground. 3-11 (b) The board shall prepare minutes for all board meetings 3-12 and deliver them to the commission. The board shall deliver the 3-13 board's bylaws and any changes made to the bylaws to the 3-14 commission. Any minutes or bylaws delivered to the commission 3-15 shall be delivered by the member of the board who is an employee of 3-16 the department. 3-17 (3) On page 1, line 24, strike "22.012,". 3-18 (4) On page 2, strike lines 7 and 8. 3-19 (5) On page 2, line 16, strike "Sections 22.005 and 22.015" 3-20 and substitute "Section 22.005". 3-21 (6) On page 2, line 18, strike "appropriate". 3-22 76R12449 WP-D Davis of Harris