76R13682 JSA-D
By Carona S.B. No. 100
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 100:
By Hunter C.S.S.B. No. 100
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the design of a quarter dollar coin commemorating the
1-3 State of Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 401.033 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 401.033. DESIGN FOR QUARTER DOLLAR COIN COMMEMORATING
1-8 TEXAS. (a) The governor is designated as the state official
1-9 authorized to consult with the United States secretary of the
1-10 treasury under 31 U.S.C. Section 5112(l) relating to the design for
1-11 a quarter dollar coin commemorating this state to be issued under
1-12 that section.
1-13 (b) The governor may establish an advisory committee as the
1-14 governor considers appropriate to assist the governor in carrying
1-15 out this section, including formulating, soliciting, reviewing, or
1-16 recommending a design or designs for the coin. If the governor
1-17 establishes the advisory committee, the presiding officer of the
1-18 Committee on State, Federal, and International Relations of the
1-19 house of representatives serves as a member of the advisory
1-20 committee by virtue of that position. The governor may appoint
1-21 other persons to the advisory committee as the governor considers
1-22 appropriate. Members of the advisory committee are not entitled to
1-23 reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of advisory
1-24 committee duties.
2-1 (c) This section expires January 1, 2005.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.