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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