1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appropriations to historical foundations by certain
1-3 counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 318.021, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 318.021. APPROPRIATIONS TO HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS:
1-8 COUNTIES WITH POPULATION OF 191,500 TO 600,000 [200,000].
1-9 The commissioners court of a county with a
1-10 population of 191,500 to 600,000 [200,000] may appropriate money
1-11 from the general fund of the county to a historical foundation or
1-12 organization in the county for the purpose of purchasing,
1-13 constructing, restoring, preserving, maintaining, or reconstructing
1-14 historical landmarks, buildings, and furnishings that are of
1-15 historical significance to the county. The foundation or
1-16 organization must be incorporated under the law of this state as a
1-17 nonprofit corporation.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2603 was passed by the House on April
23, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2603 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor