S.B. No. 89
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the terms served by members of the executive committee
1-2 of the Office for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 112.045, Human Resources
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The members serve for staggered six-year terms, with the
1-7 terms of three members expiring <two-year terms that expire on>
1-8 February 1 of each odd-numbered year. Executive committee members
1-9 receive no compensation but are entitled to reimbursement of actual
1-10 and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
1-11 SECTION 2. (a) All terms of the current members of the
1-12 executive committee of the Office for the Prevention of
1-13 Developmental Disabilities expire on the effective date of this
1-14 Act. On that date, or as soon as possible after that date, the
1-15 governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
1-16 representatives shall each appoint one member for a term expiring
1-17 February 1, 1997, one member for a term expiring February 1, 1999,
1-18 and one member for a term expiring February 1, 2001.
1-19 (b) A member of the executive committee serving immediately
1-20 before the effective date of this Act is eligible for reappointment
1-21 to the executive committee.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.