By Hardcastle                                         H.B. No. 3402
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the aviation development account in the
 1-3     state highway fund.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 21.0041 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 21.0041.  AVIATION DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT.  (a)  The
 1-8     aviation development account is an account in the state highway
 1-9     fund.
1-10           (b)  Money in the account may be appropriated only to the
1-11     department to make loans or grants under this chapter to meet air
1-12     transportation needs in support of economic development or safety
1-13     efforts.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.