AN ACT
 1-1     relating to developing and maintaining a database of the state's
 1-2     defense contractors.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 481.0065, Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  The Office of Defense Affairs shall develop and maintain
 1-7     a database of the names and public business information of all
 1-8     prime contractors and subcontractors operating in this state who
 1-9     perform defense-related work.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 607 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 607 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor