1-1     By:  Carter (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                 H.B. No. 2398
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to funding the housing trust fund.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 2306.201(b), Government Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  The fund consists of:
1-14                 (1)  appropriations or transfers made to the fund;
1-15                 (2)  unencumbered fund balances;
1-16                 (3)  public or private gifts or grants;
1-17                 (4)  investment income, including all interest,
1-18     dividends, capital gains, or other income from the investment of
1-19     any portion of the fund; [and]
1-20                 (5)  repayments received on loans made from the fund;
1-21     and
1-22                 (6)  funds from any other source.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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