1-1     By:  Ogden                                             S.B. No. 193
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                 By:  Cain
 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 193 (introduced version) as follows:
 1-8           (1)  Add a new SECTION 2 and SECTION 3 to read as follows:
 1-9           "SECTION 2.  In order to comply with the change in law made
1-10     by this Act, the Texas Transportation Commission may not expend
1-11     more funds in any fiscal year of the 2000-2001 biennium to adjust
1-12     the minimum local matching funds requirement of economically
1-13     disadvantaged counties than what was expended for that purpose in
1-14     fiscal year 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect only if a specific
1-16     appropriation for the implementation of this Act is provided in
1-17     H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the 76th
1-18     Legislature, Regular Session, 1999.  If no specific appropriation
1-19     is provided in H.B. 1, the General Appropriations Act, this Act has
1-20     no effect."
1-21           (2)  Renumber subsequent SECTIONS appropriately.
1-22                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-23                                   AN ACT
1-24     relating to disadvantaged county designation for purposes of
1-25     financing a highway project.
1-26           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 222.053, Transportation
1-28     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-29           (a)  In this section, "economically disadvantaged county"
1-30     means a county that has a per capita taxable property value that is
1-31     less than one-half the average per capita taxable property value of
1-32     counties in the state or, in comparison to other counties in the
1-33     state, has:
1-34                 (1)  below average per capita taxable property value;
1-35                 (2)  below average per capita income; and
1-36                 (3)  above average unemployment.
1-37           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-38           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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