By:  Naishtat                                         H.B. No. 1671
       73R4603 CBH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related
    1-3  Disorders.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 101.004(a) and (c), Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Appointed council members serve for staggered six-year
    1-8  <two-year> terms, with the terms of four <six> members expiring
    1-9  August 31 <September 1 of each even-numbered year and the terms of
   1-10  six members expiring September 1> of each odd-numbered year.
   1-11        (c)  A person who has served one <two> full term <terms> is
   1-12  not eligible for reappointment.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  All terms of the current appointed members
   1-14  of the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
   1-15  expire on the effective date of this Act.  On that date:
   1-16              (1)  the governor shall appoint one public member and
   1-17  one professional member for terms expiring August 31, 1995, and one
   1-18  public member and one professional member for terms expiring August
   1-19  31, 1997;
   1-20              (2)  the lieutenant governor shall appoint one public
   1-21  member and one professional member for terms expiring August 31,
   1-22  1997, and one public member and one professional member for terms
   1-23  expiring August 31, 1999; and
   1-24              (3)  the speaker of the house of representatives shall
    2-1  appoint one public member and one professional member for terms
    2-2  expiring August 31, 1999, and two professional members for terms
    2-3  expiring August 31, 1995.
    2-4        (b)  Notwithstanding Section 101.004(c), Health and Safety
    2-5  Code, as amended by this Act, an appointed member of the council
    2-6  serving immediately before the effective date of this Act is
    2-7  eligible for reappointment to the council.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.