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1	1	H.B. No. 2914
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to the establishment of a fuel mitigation pilot grant
6	6	program for fire departments.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 88, Education Code, is
9	9	amended by adding Section 88.121 to read as follows:
10	10	Sec. 88.121. FUEL MITIGATION PILOT GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The
11	11	Texas Forest Service, with the advice of the advisory committee
12	12	appointed under Section 614.073, Government Code, may:
13	13	(1) establish and administer a pilot program under
14	14	this section to provide grants to fire departments to assist with
15	15	the costs of fuel mitigation; and
16	16	(2) adopt rules consistent with this section as
17	17	necessary to implement this section, including rules establishing:
18	18	(A) reasonable criteria and qualifications for
19	19	the distribution of grant money under the pilot program; and
20	20	(B) a procedure for reporting and processing
21	21	requests for grant money under the pilot program.
22	22	(b) The Texas Forest Service may solicit and accept gifts,
23	23	grants, and donations from any public or private source for
24	24	purposes of this section.
25	25	(c) If the Texas Forest Service establishes a pilot program
26	26	under this section, the director shall, not later than December 1,
27	27	2010, submit a written report to the legislature on the
28	28	effectiveness of the pilot program in mitigating fuel hazards.
29	29	(d) Notwithstanding Section 614.075(b), Government Code,
30	30	money in the rural volunteer fire department insurance fund may
31	31	also be used for purposes of the pilot program under this section.
32	32	(e) This section expires September 1, 2011.
33	33	SECTION 2. This Act does not make an appropriation. A
34	34	provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program,
35	35	creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental
36	36	entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the
37	37	legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the
38	38	provision.
39	39	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
40	40	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
41	41	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
42	42	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
43	43	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
44	44	______________________________ ______________________________
45	45	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
46	46	I certify that H.B. No. 2914 was passed by the House on April
47	47	15, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
48	48	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
49	49	No. 2914 on May 29, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0,
50	50	1 present, not voting.
51	51	______________________________
52	52	Chief Clerk of the House
53	53	I certify that H.B. No. 2914 was passed by the Senate, with
54	54	amendments, on May 25, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
55	55	0.
56	56	______________________________
57	57	Secretary of the Senate
58	58	APPROVED: __________________
59	59	Date
60	60	__________________
61	61	Governor