1-1  By:  Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)             H.B. No. 1659
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental
    1-9  Retardation.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 532.003(b), Health and Safety Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  The members must be representatives of the public.  At
   1-14  least one member must be a consumer of services for persons with
   1-15  mental illness or mental retardation or a family member of a
   1-16  consumer of those services.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  If no member of the Texas Board of Mental Health
   1-18  and Mental Retardation serving on the effective date of this Act
   1-19  meets the qualifications imposed by this Act, the governor shall
   1-20  appoint a person meeting those qualifications to the first vacancy
   1-21  occurring after the effective date of this Act.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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