By: Fraser S.B. No. 607 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.