By Madla S.B. No. 313
76R3238 WP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number of authorized defense projects within a
1-3 defense readjustment zone.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2310.303, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 2310.303. PROHIBITION ON QUALIFIED BUSINESS
1-8 CERTIFICATION. If the department determines that the governing
1-9 body of a readjustment zone is not complying with this chapter, the
1-10 department shall prohibit the certification of a qualified business
1-11 in the zone until the department determines that the governing body
1-12 is complying with this chapter. The department may not designate
1-13 more than six [two] businesses in a single readjustment zone as
1-14 defense readjustment projects.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.