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1-15     Wildlife Code are repealed: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 2-1     28.003, 49.016, or 89.021(d), Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by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 2-6     22.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act,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 2-8     22.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act,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