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1-15 Wildlife Code are repealed: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2-1 28.003, 49.016, or 89.021(d), Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by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2-6 22.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act,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2-8 22.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act,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2-16 Sections 22.005 and 22.015, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by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