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Senate Bill 899 |
Senate Author: Deuell |
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Effective: 5-27-09 |
House Sponsor: Smith, Todd |
Senate Bill 899 amends the Government Code to authorize an officer or employee of a transportation or transit authority, department, district, or system, or a hospital district, to participate in the comptroller of public accounts' contracts for travel services if the officer or employee is engaged in official business. The bill specifies that participation by a hospital district officer or employee is for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares and travel agent fees. The bill authorizes the comptroller to charge a participating entity a fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the comptroller in providing such services and requires the comptroller to periodically review fees and to adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred. The bill requires the comptroller to deposit the fees collected from participating hospital districts to the credit of the hospital district airline fares account and establishes that this account is an account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the purposes of travel and vehicle fleet services. The bill requires the comptroller to adopt rules and to make or amend contracts as necessary to administer the hospital district provisions.