1-1 By: Ritter (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 2272 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 1-4 Resources; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to advisory committees to the Parks and Wildlife 1-9 Commission. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Parks and Wildlife 1-12 Code, is amended by adding Section 11.0162 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 11.0162. ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO COMMISSION. (a) The 1-14 chairman may appoint committees to advise the commission on issues 1-15 under its jurisdiction. 1-16 (b) The chairman may adopt rules that set the membership, 1-17 terms of service, qualifications, operating procedures, and other 1-18 standards to ensure the effectiveness of an advisory committee 1-19 appointed under this section. 1-20 SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Parks and 1-21 Wildlife Code are repealed: 1-22 (1) Sections 22.002-22.005; 1-23 (2) Sections 22.262-22.264; 1-24 (3) Section 28.003; 1-25 (4) Section 49.016; and 1-26 (5) Section 89.021(d). 1-27 SECTION 3. Section 22.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-28 amended to read as follows: 1-29 Sec. 22.013. MEETINGS. (a) The San Jacinto Historical 1-30 Advisory Board shall meet quarterly to review the policies and 1-31 operations of the San Jacinto Battleground and to advise the 1-32 department on the proper historical development of the 1-33 battleground. 1-34 (b) The board shall prepare minutes for all board meetings 1-35 and deliver them to the commission. The board shall deliver the 1-36 board's bylaws and any changes made to the bylaws to the 1-37 commission. Any minutes or bylaws delivered to the commission 1-38 shall be delivered by the member of the board who is an employee of 1-39 the department. 1-40 SECTION 4. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-41 (b) The term of a member of an advisory committee, 1-42 commission, or board created under Section 22.002, 22.262, 28.003, 1-43 49.016, or 89.021(d), Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 1-44 2 of this Act, who is serving on August 31, 1999, expires September 1-45 1, 1999. 1-46 (c) Any bequest, gift, or grant of money or property 1-47 accepted by the Fannin State Park Advisory Commission under Section 1-48 22.004, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of this Act, 1-49 that is held by the commission on August 31, 1999, is transferred 1-50 on September 1, 1999, to the Parks and Wildlife Department; if a 1-51 grantor of transferred funds or property specified a purpose for 1-52 which the funds or property were to be used, the department shall 1-53 use those funds or property for the specified purpose. 1-54 (d) The department shall retain all data collected under 1-55 Section 22.005, Parks and Wildlife Code, repealed by Section 2 of 1-56 this Act, and shall use it to depict the story of Texas history and 1-57 independence at the battleground. 1-58 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 1-59 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-60 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-61 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-62 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-63 * * * * *