By Naishtat H.B. No. 2703
74R6671 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of the Texas Department on Aging to
1-3 participate in certain block grant programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2105.001(1), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Agency" means:
1-8 (A) the Texas Department of Human Services;
1-9 (B) <,> the Texas Department of Health;
1-10 (C) <,> the Texas Department of Housing and
1-11 Community Affairs;
1-12 (D) <,> the Central Education Agency;
1-13 (E) <,> the Texas Department of Mental Health
1-14 and Mental Retardation;
1-15 (F) the Texas Department on Aging;<,> or
1-16 (G) any other commission, board, <or>
1-17 department, or state agency designated to receive block grant
1-18 funds.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.