Amend HB 496 by inserting the following appropriately 
numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 201.013(e), Agriculture Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(e)  Each delegate to a state district convention, or an 
alternate attending in the place of a delegate, is entitled to a per 
diem of $30 a day for not more than two days and the state mileage 
reimbursement rate specified in the General Appropriations Act [18 
cents a mile] for travel each way between the county seat of the 
delegate's residence and the convention site.  The state board 
shall pay the per diem and travel allowance.