By Gray                                               H.B. No. 2954
         76R7251 MRB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the application of the sunset review process to certain
 1-3     state agencies.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  TEXAS-ISRAEL EXCHANGE FUND BOARD.  Section
 1-6     45.006(i), Agriculture Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (i)  The board is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code
 1-8     (Texas Sunset Act).  Unless continued in existence as provided by
 1-9     that chapter, the board is abolished and this chapter expires
1-10     September 1, 2007 [2001].
1-11           SECTION 2.  TEXAS EMANCIPATION JUNETEENTH CULTURAL AND
1-12     HISTORICAL COMMISSION.  Section 448.002, Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 448.002.  SUNSET PROVISION.  The Texas Emancipation
1-15     Juneteenth Cultural and Historical Commission is subject to Chapter
1-16     325 (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided
1-17     by that chapter, the commission is abolished and this chapter
1-18     expires September 1, 2007 [2001].
1-19           SECTION 3.  STATE LAW LIBRARY.  Section 91.008, Government
1-20     Code, is repealed.
1-21           SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
1-22     1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-24     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.