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.