By:  Bivins                                             S.B. No. 72
       73R425 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to allowing reimbursement for expenses and eliminating the
    1-3  per diem paid to a member of a state board or commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2(a), Chapter 428, Acts of the 67th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6813f, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  A member of a state board or commission may not be paid
    1-9  <is entitled to> per diem relating to the member's service on the
   1-10  board or commission, but the member is entitled to reimbursement
   1-11  for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing the
   1-12  member's duties on the board or commission, subject to any
   1-13  applicable limitation on reimbursement provided<.  The amount of
   1-14  the per diem is the amount prescribed> by the General
   1-15  Appropriations Act and subject to a law that prohibits any
   1-16  compensatory or expense reimbursement.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 3, Chapter 428, Acts of the 67th
   1-18  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6813f, Vernon's Texas
   1-19  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 3.  Suspension of Laws.  Each law relating to
   1-21  <prescribing the amount of> per diem or reimbursement for expenses
   1-22  relating to membership on a state board or commission is suspended
   1-23  to the extent of a conflict with this Act.  <If the General
   1-24  Appropriations Act does not prescribe the amount of per diem to
    2-1  which a member of a state board or commission is entitled by law,
    2-2  the law prescribing the amount of per diem is not suspended by this
    2-3  Act.  If a law imposes a limit on the number of days for which a
    2-4  member of a state board or commission is entitled to claim per
    2-5  diem, the limit is not suspended by this Act.>
    2-6        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-7        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.