1-1     By:  Keffer, Christian (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)      H.B. No. 2840
 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 Human
 1-4     Services; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the definition of "assistance organization" for
 1-9     purposes of state surplus and salvage property.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 2175.001(1), Government Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13                 (1)  "Assistance organization" means:
1-14                       (A)  a nonprofit organization that provides
1-15     educational, health, or human services or assistance to homeless
1-16     individuals;
1-17                       (B)  a nonprofit food bank that solicits,
1-18     warehouses, and redistributes edible but unmarketable food to an
1-19     agency that feeds needy families and individuals; [and]
1-20                       (C)  Texas Partners of the Americas, a registered
1-21     agency with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, with
1-22     the approval of the Partners of the Alliance office of the Agency
1-23     for International Development; and
1-24                       (D)  a group, including a faith-based group, that
1-25     enters into a financial or nonfinancial agreement with a health or
1-26     human services agency to provide services to that agency's clients.
1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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