By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1080
       74R3993 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to audits of fees and surcharges collected to provide
    1-3  9-1-1 services.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 771, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 771.077 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 771.077.  AUDITS BY STATE AUDITOR AND COMPTROLLER.  (a)
    1-8  The state auditor shall conduct an audit of each regional planning
    1-9  commission at least once every four years to ensure adequate
   1-10  oversight of the fees received under this subchapter by the
   1-11  regional planning commission.
   1-12        (b)  The comptroller may audit the collection and remittance
   1-13  of fees or surcharges under this subchapter by a service provider.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The heading of Section 771.076, Health and Safety
   1-15  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 771.076.  AUDITS REQUIRED BY COMMISSION.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  Beginning September 1, 1995, the state auditor
   1-18  shall conduct the first audits required by Section 771.077(a),
   1-19  Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.  The state auditor
   1-20  shall prepare a report concerning the use of the 9-1-1 emergency
   1-21  service fees by each regional planning commission and shall present
   1-22  the report to the 75th Legislature not later than January 15, 1997.
   1-23  The report must include projections of the continuing need for
   1-24  funds to maintain and enhance 9-1-1 services throughout the state
    2-1  and recommendations for potential alternative uses of the fees to
    2-2  strengthen emergency and trauma services.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.