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.