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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