By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 100
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the design of a quarter dollar coin commemorating the
 1-2     State of Texas.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 401.033 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 401.033.  DESIGN FOR QUARTER DOLLAR COIN COMMEMORATING
 1-7     TEXAS.  (a)  The governor is designated as the state official
 1-8     authorized to consult with the United States secretary of the
 1-9     treasury under 31 U.S.C. Section 5112(l) relating to the design for
1-10     a quarter dollar coin commemorating this state to be issued under
1-11     that section.
1-12           (b)  The governor may appoint an advisory committee as the
1-13     governor considers appropriate to assist the governor in carrying
1-14     out this section, including formulating, soliciting, reviewing, or
1-15     recommending a design or designs for the coin.  Members of the
1-16     committee are not entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred
1-17     in the performance of committee duties.
1-18           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2005.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.