1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 659 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 1999; February 25, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 May 3, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 659 By: Nixon 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to authorizing certain state agencies and state employees 1-11 to participate in charitable activities. 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 493, Government Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Section 493.023 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 493.023. CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING. (a) Under policies 1-15 established by the department, a department employee is entitled to 1-16 participate in fund-raising activities conducted on department 1-17 property for the benefit of an eligible charitable organization. 1-18 The department shall adopt policies under this section which 1-19 address: 1-20 (1) minimum qualifications of eligible charitable 1-21 organizations; 1-22 (2) limitations on the use of funds; 1-23 (3) handling and distribution of the proceeds of 1-24 fund-raising activity to eligible charitable organizations located 1-25 in the county where the fund-raising takes place; and 1-26 (4) ensuring that participation in fund-raising is 1-27 voluntary and not coercive. 1-28 (b) Funds collected under this section are not subject to 1-29 Section 404.094. 1-30 (c) Policies adopted under this section may not affect the 1-31 department's participation in the state employees charitable 1-32 campaign under Subchapter H, Chapter 659. 1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-39 * * * * *