1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 89
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 22, 1994; January 11, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; January 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; January 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms served by members of the executive committee
1-9 of the Office for the Prevention of Developmental Disabilities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 112.045, Human Resources
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) The members serve for staggered six-year terms, with the
1-14 terms of three members expiring <two-year terms that expire on>
1-15 February 1 of each odd-numbered year. Executive committee members
1-16 receive no compensation but are entitled to reimbursement of actual
1-17 and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
1-18 SECTION 2. (a) All terms of the current members of the
1-19 executive committee of the Office for the Prevention of
1-20 Developmental Disabilities expire on the effective date of this
1-21 Act. On that date, or as soon as possible after that date, the
1-22 governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
1-23 representatives shall each appoint one member for a term expiring
1-24 February 1, 1997, one member for a term expiring February 1, 1999,
1-25 and one member for a term expiring February 1, 2001.
1-26 (b) A member of the executive committee serving immediately
1-27 before the effective date of this Act is eligible for reappointment
1-28 to the executive committee.
1-29 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-30 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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