By Berlanga H.B. No. 3132 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the collection and use of fees by, and management of 1-3 the funds of the Texas Department of Health. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 12.001, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Notwithstanding any other law, the board may set fees 1-8 for services and activities that the board or the department is 1-9 required to perform by law. Fees shall be set in an amount 1-10 necessary to recover the cost of performing the service or the 1-11 activity. 1-12 SECTION 2. All moneys that the Texas Department of Health is 1-13 authorized to receive by law from any source shall be deposited in 1-14 dedicated accounts in the general revenue fund. These accounts are 1-15 dedicated to the purposes for which they were established under the 1-16 applicable provisions of law. The accounts are exempt from 1-17 Subsection (b), Section 403.095, Government Code, that would 1-18 authorize the expenditure or transfer of dedicated revenues 1-19 inconsistent with this section. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.