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.