By Horn                                               H.B. No. 1938
       74R6241 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to permitting local law enforcement authorities to receive
    1-3  reduced airline fares while engaged in certain official duties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 14.02, State Purchasing and General
    1-6  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-7  amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-8        (f)  A local law enforcement officer or employee who is
    1-9  transporting a state prisoner under a felony warrant may
   1-10  participate in the commission's contract for travel services for
   1-11  purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares for the officer or
   1-12  employee and the prisoner.  The commission shall adopt rules and
   1-13  make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this subsection.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.