By: Ogden S.B. No. 193 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to disadvantaged county designation for purposes of 1-2 financing a highway project. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 222.053, Transportation 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) In this section, "economically disadvantaged county" 1-7 means a county that has a per capita taxable property value that is 1-8 less than one-half the average per capita taxable property value of 1-9 counties in the state or, in comparison to other counties in the 1-10 state, has: 1-11 (1) below average per capita taxable property value; 1-12 (2) below average per capita income; and 1-13 (3) above average unemployment. 1-14 SECTION 2. In order to comply with the change in law made by 1-15 this Act, the Texas Transportation Commission may not expend more 1-16 funds in any fiscal year of the 2000-2001 biennium to adjust the 1-17 minimum local matching funds requirement of economically 1-18 disadvantaged counties than what was expended for that purpose in 1-19 fiscal year 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.