By Keffer                                             H.B. No. 2840
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the definition of "assistance organization" for
 1-3     purposes of surplus and salvage property.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2175.001(1), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  "Assistance organization" means:
 1-8                       (A)  a nonprofit organization that provides
 1-9     educational, health, or human services or assistance to homeless
1-10     individuals;
1-11                       (B)  a nonprofit food bank that solicits,
1-12     warehouses, and redistributes edible but unmarketable food to an
1-13     agency that feeds needy families and individuals; [and]
1-14                       (C)  Texas Partners of the Americas, a registered
1-15     agency with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, with
1-16     the approval of the Partners of the Alliance office of the Agency
1-17     for International Development; and
1-18                       (D)  any other group, including a faith-based
1-19     group, that enters into financial or nonfinancial accord with a
1-20     health or human services agency to provide services to that
1-21     agency's clients.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.