1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 287
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1999; February 1, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the Texas parks and wildlife capital account.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 11.043, Parks and
1-11     Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12           (c)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), money in the
1-13     account may be spent only for acquisition and development or
1-14     operation of parks, fisheries, and wildlife projects that have been
1-15     individually approved by the commission.  Projects that directly
1-16     provide hunting, fishing, or outdoor recreation opportunity to the
1-17     public shall be given preference for funding under this section.
1-18     Approved projects may include:
1-19                 (1)  acquiring land or facilities for use in any
1-20     department program;
1-21                 (2)  developing and improving any land or facility
1-22     owned or controlled by the department;
1-23                 (3)  servicing the debt on Texas park development bonds
1-24     issued under Article III, Section 49-e, of the Texas Constitution
1-25     or any other bonds issued for parks, fisheries, or wildlife
1-26     projects; [and]
1-27                 (4)  local park grants in Chapter 24 of this code;
1-28                 (5)  operational costs in association with any parks,
1-29     fisheries, or wildlife projects; and
1-30                 (6)  meeting the requirements for providing matching
1-31     money for any federal grants for parks, fisheries, or wildlife
1-32     projects.
1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-34           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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