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.
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