Bill Text: TX HB11 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to appropriating money to the Texas A&M Forest Service to assist volunteer fire departments during the next state fiscal biennium.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-10 - Referred to Appropriations [HB11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB11-Introduced.html
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| By: Simpson | H.B. No. 11 | |
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| relating to appropriating money to the Texas A&M Forest Service to | ||
| assist volunteer fire departments during the next state fiscal | ||
| biennium. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas | ||
| A&M Forest Service by Senate Bill No. 1, Acts of the 83rd | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations | ||
| Act), $11,500,000 is appropriated out of general revenue account | ||
| number 5064, Volunteer Fire Department Assistance, to the service | ||
| for each of the fiscal years of the state fiscal biennium ending | ||
| August 31, 2015, for the purpose of assisting volunteer | ||
| firefighters in paying for equipment, personnel training, and | ||
| administration, and for the purpose of staffing and operating costs | ||
| associated with the Statewide Wildfire Protection Plan. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. 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. | ||
