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 establish 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.  If the governor
1-16     establishes the advisory committee, the presiding officer of the
1-17     Committee on State, Federal, and International Relations of the
1-18     house of representatives serves as a member of the advisory
1-19     committee by virtue of that position.  The governor may appoint
1-20     other persons to the advisory committee as the governor considers
1-21     appropriate.  Members of the advisory committee are not entitled to
1-22     reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of advisory
1-23     committee duties.
1-24           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2005.
 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,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 100 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 100 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 145,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor