By Moncrief                                           S.B. No. 1336
       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.