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.