Bill Text: TX HB1654 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public agreements or contracts related to United Nations Agenda 21.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-09 - Referred to International Trade & Intergovernmental Affairs [HB1654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1654-Introduced.html
| 84R3649 JXC-D | ||
| By: White of Bell | H.B. No. 1654 | |
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| relating to public agreements or contracts related to United | ||
| Nations Agenda 21. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 2255, Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2255. PRIVATE DONORS OR ORGANIZATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL | ||
| ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 2255, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 2255.002 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2255.002. ORGANIZATIONS ACCREDITED BY THE UNITED | ||
| NATIONS. (a) In this section, "governmental entity" means: | ||
| (1) this state; | ||
| (2) a political subdivision of this state, including a | ||
| municipality, a county, or a special-purpose district or authority; | ||
| (3) an institution, board, commission, office, | ||
| department, court, or other agency: | ||
| (A) in the executive, judicial, or legislative | ||
| branch of state government, including an institution of higher | ||
| education and a retirement system; or | ||
| (B) of a political subdivision of this state; or | ||
| (4) a public-private partnership. | ||
| (b) A governmental entity may not enter into an agreement or | ||
| contract with, accept money from, or grant money or other financial | ||
| aid to a nongovernmental or intergovernmental organization | ||
| accredited by the United Nations to implement a policy that | ||
| originated in the Agenda 21 plan adopted by members of the United | ||
| Nations at the United Nations Conference on Environment and | ||
| Development in June 1992. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by Section 2255.002, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an agreement | ||
| or contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| An agreement or contract entered into before the effective date of | ||
| this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the agreement | ||
| or contract was entered into, and that law is continued in effect | ||
| for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
