1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting certain law enforcement authorities and
1-3 probation officers to receive reduced airline fares while engaged
1-4 in certain official duties.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 2171.055, Government Code,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 2171.055. PARTICIPATION [BY STATE AGENCIES] IN TRAVEL
1-9 SERVICES CONTRACTS.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 2171.055, Government Code, is amended by
1-11 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-12 (e) A county sheriff or deputy sheriff or juvenile probation
1-13 officer who is transporting a state prisoner under a felony warrant
1-14 may participate in the commission's contract for travel services
1-15 for purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares for the law
1-16 enforcement or probation officer and the prisoner. The commission
1-17 may charge a participating county a fee not to exceed the costs
1-18 incurred by the commission in providing services under this
1-19 subsection. The commission shall periodically review fees and
1-20 shall adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in
1-21 providing services to counties under this subsection. The
1-22 commission shall adopt rules and make or amend contracts as
1-23 necessary to administer this subsection.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 255 was passed by the House on April
11, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 255 on May 12, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 255 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 8, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor