1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 672
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1993; March 9, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
1-4 April 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; April 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Zaffirini x
1-9 Ellis x
1-10 Madla x
1-11 Moncrief x
1-12 Nelson x
1-13 Patterson x
1-14 Shelley x
1-15 Truan x
1-16 Wentworth x
1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-18 AN ACT
1-19 relating to the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related
1-20 Disorders.
1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 101.004, Health
1-23 and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) Appointed council members serve for staggered six-year
1-25 <two-year> terms, with the terms of four <six> members expiring
1-26 August 31 <September 1 of each even-numbered year and the terms of
1-27 six members expiring September 1> of each odd-numbered year.
1-28 (c) A person who has served one <two> full term <terms> is
1-29 not eligible for reappointment.
1-30 SECTION 2. (a) All terms of the current appointed members
1-31 of the Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
1-32 expire on the effective date of this Act. On that date:
1-33 (1) the governor shall appoint one public member and
1-34 one professional member for terms expiring August 31, 1995, and one
1-35 public member and one professional member for terms expiring August
1-36 31, 1997;
1-37 (2) the lieutenant governor shall appoint one public
1-38 member and one professional member for terms expiring August 31,
1-39 1997, and one public member and one professional member for terms
1-40 expiring August 31, 1999; and
1-41 (3) the speaker of the house of representatives shall
1-42 appoint one public member and one professional member for terms
1-43 expiring August 31, 1999, and two professional members for terms
1-44 expiring August 31, 1995.
1-45 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), Section 101.004, Health
1-46 and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, an appointed member of the
1-47 council serving immediately before the effective date of this Act
1-48 is eligible for reappointment to the council.
1-49 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-50 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 Austin,
1-57 Texas
1-58 April 1, 1993
1-59 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-60 President of the Senate
1-61 Sir:
1-62 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-63 referred S.B. No. 672, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-64 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-65 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-66 Zaffirini,
1-67 Chair
1-68 * * * * *
2-1 WITNESSES
2-2 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 672.