1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 930
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
1-4 Military Installations; March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to entities eligible for grants because of a reduction in
1-9 defense-related activity.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 486.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 486.003. ELIGIBILITY FOR GRANT. (a) A local
1-14 governmental entity is eligible for a grant under this chapter if
1-15 it is:
1-16 (1) a municipality or county that is an adversely
1-17 affected defense-dependent community; [or]
1-18 (2) a regional planning commission that has an
1-19 adversely affected defense-dependent community within its
1-20 boundaries;
1-21 (3) a public junior college district all or part of
1-22 which is located in an adversely affected defense-dependent
1-23 community; or
1-24 (4) a campus or extension center for education
1-25 purposes of the Texas State Technical College System located in an
1-26 adversely affected defense-dependent community.
1-27 (b) A municipality or county is an adversely affected
1-28 defense-dependent community if the department determines that:
1-29 (1) the municipality or county includes within its
1-30 boundaries a defense facility that the department of defense or
1-31 applicable military department has publicly proposed for closure or
1-32 realignment; or
1-33 (2) the municipality or county:
1-34 (A) requires assistance because of:
1-35 (i) [(A)] the proposed or actual
1-36 establishment, realignment, or closure of a defense facility;
1-37 (ii) [(B)] the cancellation or termination
1-38 of a United States Department of Defense contract or the failure of
1-39 the department of defense to proceed with an approved major weapon
1-40 system program;
1-41 (iii) [(C)] a publicly announced planned
1-42 major reduction in department of defense spending that would
1-43 directly and adversely affect the municipality or county; or
1-44 (iv) [(D)] the closure or a significant
1-45 reduction of the operations of a defense facility as the result of
1-46 a merger, acquisition, or consolidation of a defense contractor
1-47 operating the facility; and
1-48 (B) [(2) the municipality or county] is expected
1-49 to experience, during the period between the beginning of the
1-50 federal fiscal year during which an event described by Subdivision
1-51 (2)(A) [(1)] is finally approved and the date that the event is to
1-52 be substantially completed, a direct loss of:
1-53 (i) [(A)] 2,500 or more defense worker
1-54 jobs in any area of the municipality or county that is located in
1-55 an urbanized area of a metropolitan statistical area;
1-56 (ii) [(B)] 1,000 or more defense worker
1-57 jobs in any area of the municipality or county that is not located
1-58 in an urbanized area of a metropolitan statistical area; or
1-59 (iii) [(C)] defense worker jobs
1-60 representing one percent of the jobs in the municipality or county.
1-61 SECTION 2. Section 486.004, Government Code, is amended by
1-62 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-63 (d) The department may make a grant to an eligible local
1-64 governmental entity described by Section 486.003(a)(3) or (4)
2-1 without regard to the availability or acquisition of matching
2-2 money.
2-3 SECTION 3. Section 486.005, Government Code, is amended by
2-4 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
2-5 (c) An eligible local governmental entity described by
2-6 Section 486.003(a)(3) or (4) may use the proceeds of the grant to
2-7 purchase or lease equipment to train defense workers whose jobs
2-8 have been threatened or lost because of an event described by
2-9 Section 486.003(b)(2)(A).
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.
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