1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1613 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs; 1-4 April 19, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 19, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1613 By: Sibley 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to requiring the Texas Commission on the Arts to develop a 1-11 five-year program to promote the development of the arts in certain 1-12 counties located near an international border. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 444, Government Code, is 1-15 amended by adding Section 444.031 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 444.031. BORDER ARTS INITIATIVE. (a) The commission 1-17 shall develop a program under which the commission will provide 1-18 financial assistance and on-site technical assistance to promote 1-19 the development of the arts in the 25 counties in this state 1-20 located on or nearest to an international border. The commission 1-21 shall model the program after its county arts expansion program 1-22 except that the commission may not require a county to provide 1-23 matching funds to participate in the program. 1-24 (b) For each of the five state fiscal years ending August 1-25 31, 2000, August 31, 2001, August 31, 2002, August 31, 2003, and 1-26 August 31, 2004, the commission shall reserve $3,000 for each of 1-27 the 25 counties, out of money appropriated to the commission that 1-28 may be used for this purpose, to implement the program in each of 1-29 those counties during the fiscal year. 1-30 (c) This section expires September 1, 2004. 1-31 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-37 * * * * *