By Carona                                              S.B. No. 100
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                                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 appoint 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.
1-17           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2005.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.