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. 1-28 * * * * *