By Hunter of Taylor                                    H.B. No. 553
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 553:
          By Maxey                                           C.S.H.B. No. 553
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the operation of community mental health and mental
    1-3  retardation centers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 534.001, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (e)  A community center operating <established> under this
    1-9  subchapter <Subsection (d)> may operate only for the purposes and
   1-10  perform only the functions defined in the center's plan.   The
   1-11  board by rule shall specify the elements that must be included in a
   1-12  plan and shall prescribe the procedure for submitting, <and>
   1-13  approving, and modifying a center's plan.
   1-14        (f)  Each function performed by a community center under this
   1-15  title is governmental.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Subdivision (3), Section 15.03, Business &
   1-17  Commerce Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-18        (3)  The term "person" means a natural person,
   1-19  proprietorship, partnership, corporation, municipal corporation,
   1-20  association, or any other public or private group, however
   1-21  organized, but does not include the State of Texas, its
   1-22  departments, and its administrative agencies or a community center
   1-23  operating under Subchapter A, Chapter 534, Health and Safety Code.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
    2-1  only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this
    2-2  Act.
    2-3        (b)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
    2-4  Act is covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct
    2-5  occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
    2-6  purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 5.  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.