1-1 By: Madla, Duncan, Luna S.B. No. 313
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1999; February 1, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
1-4 Military Installations; May 5, 1999, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays
1-6 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 313 By: Shapleigh
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the number of authorized defense projects within a
1-11 defense readjustment zone.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 2310.303, Government Code, is amended to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 2310.303. Prohibition on Qualified Business
1-16 Certification. If the department determines that the governing
1-17 body of a readjustment zone is not complying with this chapter, the
1-18 department shall prohibit the certification of a qualified business
1-19 in the zone until the department determines that the governing body
1-20 is complying with this chapter. The department may not designate
1-21 more than six [two] businesses in a single readjustment zone as
1-22 defense readjustment projects.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if a specific
1-24 appropriation for the implementation of this Act is provided in
1-25 H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the 76th
1-26 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999. If no specific appropriation
1-27 is provided in H.B. No. 1, the General Appropriations Act, this Act
1-28 has no effect.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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