1-1     By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 607
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 18, 1999; February 22, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
 1-4     Military Installations; March 4, 1999, reported favorably, as
 1-5     amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 4, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Fraser
 1-8     Amend Senate Bill No. 607 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  On page 1, line 19, strike "other relevant" and replace
1-10     with "public business".
1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12                                   AN ACT
1-13     relating to developing and maintaining a database of the state's
1-14     defense contractors.
1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16           SECTION 1.  Section 481.0065, Government Code, is amended by
1-17     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-18           (d)  The Office of Defense Affairs shall develop and maintain
1-19     a database of the names and other relevant information of all prime
1-20     contractors and subcontractors operating in this state who perform
1-21     defense-related work.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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