Bill Text: TX HB319 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 319 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to an appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund for the repair, restoration, and permanent dry berthing of the Battleship "Texas."

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-27 - Referred to Appropriations [HB319 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB319-Introduced.html

	85S11755 MTB-D

	By: Perez	H.B. No. 319



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to an appropriation of money from the economic
	stabilization fund for the repair, restoration, and permanent dry
	berthing of the Battleship "Texas."
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. (a) The amount of $30,000,000 is appropriated
	from the economic stabilization fund to the Parks and Wildlife
	Department for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2018, and
	$30,000,000 is appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to
	the Parks and Wildlife Department for the state fiscal year ending
	August 31, 2019. Money appropriated to the Parks and Wildlife
	Department under this section shall be used to repair, restore, and
	present to the public in a permanent dry berth the Battleship
	"Texas."
	(b) This Act expires September 1, 2019.
	SECTION 2. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section:
	(1) this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
	vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution; and
	(2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
	immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.
	(b) This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote of
	two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature,
	as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.