1-1 By: Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2603
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to appropriations to historical foundations by certain
1-10 counties.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 318.021, Local Government Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 318.021. APPROPRIATIONS TO HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS:
1-15 COUNTIES WITH POPULATION OF 191,500 TO 600,000 [200,000].
1-16 The commissioners court of a county with a
1-17 population of 191,500 to 600,000 [200,000] may appropriate money
1-18 from the general fund of the county to a historical foundation or
1-19 organization in the county for the purpose of purchasing,
1-20 constructing, restoring, preserving, maintaining, or reconstructing
1-21 historical landmarks, buildings, and furnishings that are of
1-22 historical significance to the county. The foundation or
1-23 organization must be incorporated under the law of this state as a
1-24 nonprofit corporation.
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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