H.B. No. 1503 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to reimbursement of children committed to the Texas Youth 1-3 Commission for lost or damaged personal property. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.0431(a), Human Resources Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) Proceeds from the operation of canteens and vending 1-8 machines at facilities under the jurisdiction of the commission 1-9 shall be deposited to the credit of a special account in the 1-10 General Revenue Fund called the canteen revolving fund. The 1-11 proceeds shall be used to pay the actual expenses of maintaining 1-12 and operating the canteens and vending machines. Proceeds in 1-13 excess of the amount required for those expenses, donations for 1-14 student activities and proceeds from children's fundraising 1-15 projects shall be deposited to the credit of a special account in 1-16 the General Revenue Fund called the student benefit fund and may be 1-17 used only to: 1-18 (1) provide education, recreation, and entertainment 1-19 to children committed to the commission; or 1-20 (2) reimburse children committed to the commission for 1-21 personal property lost or damaged as a result of negligence by the 1-22 staff of the commission. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act applies to the reimbursement of personal 1-24 property without regard to whether the property was lost or damaged 2-1 before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.