Bill Text: TX HB1606 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Military Department to purchase food and beverages.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1606 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1606-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Military Department to purchase food and beverages.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1606 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1606-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huberty (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) | H.B. No. 1606 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran | ||
Affairs & Border Security; May 15, 2017, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the authority of the Texas Military Department to | ||
purchase food and beverages. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 437, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Section 437.118 and adding Section 437.119 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 437.118. MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION [ |
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military housing in accordance with policies and regulations | ||
adopted by the adjutant general and published on the department's | ||
Internet website. The department shall deposit room fees in a | ||
billeting account. | ||
Sec. 437.119. USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE FOOD AND BEVERAGES. | ||
The department may use appropriated money to purchase food and | ||
beverages for: | ||
(1) charged military housing; | ||
(2) service members of the Texas military forces on | ||
military duty, including required training functions; and | ||
(3) students participating in the Texas ChalleNGe | ||
Academy. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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