By: Madla, Duncan, Luna S.B. No. 313
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the number of authorized defense projects within a
1-2 defense readjustment zone.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2310.303, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 2310.303. Prohibition on Qualified Business
1-7 Certification. If the department determines that the governing
1-8 body of a readjustment zone is not complying with this chapter, the
1-9 department shall prohibit the certification of a qualified business
1-10 in the zone until the department determines that the governing body
1-11 is complying with this chapter. The department may not designate
1-12 more than six [two] businesses in a single readjustment zone as
1-13 defense readjustment projects.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if a specific
1-15 appropriation for the implementation of this Act is provided in
1-16 H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the 76th
1-17 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999. If no specific appropriation
1-18 is provided in H.B. No. 1, the General Appropriations Act, this Act
1-19 has no effect.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.