By: Montford S.B. No. 672
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related
1-2 Disorders.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 101.004, Health
1-5 and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Appointed council members serve for staggered six-year
1-7 <two-year> terms, with the terms of four <six> members expiring
1-8 August 31 <September 1 of each even-numbered year and the terms of
1-9 six members expiring September 1> of each odd-numbered year.
1-10 (c) A person who has served one <two> full term <terms> is
1-11 not eligible for reappointment.
1-12 SECTION 2. (a) All terms of the current appointed members
1-13 of the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
1-14 expire on the effective date of this Act. On that date:
1-15 (1) the governor shall appoint one public member and
1-16 one professional member for terms expiring August 31, 1995, and one
1-17 public member and one professional member for terms expiring August
1-18 31, 1997;
1-19 (2) the lieutenant governor shall appoint one public
1-20 member and one professional member for terms expiring August 31,
1-21 1997, and one public member and one professional member for terms
1-22 expiring August 31, 1999; and
1-23 (3) the speaker of the house of representatives shall
1-24 appoint one public member and one professional member for terms
2-1 expiring August 31, 1999, and two professional members for terms
2-2 expiring August 31, 1995.
2-3 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), Section 101.004, Health
2-4 and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, an appointed member of the
2-5 council serving immediately before the effective date of this Act
2-6 is eligible for reappointment to the council.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.