1-1     By:  Denny, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)          H.B. No. 255

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; April 30, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                             By:  Galloway

 1-7     Amend House Bill 255 (House engrossed version) as follows:

 1-8           In SECTION 2 of the bill (Section 2171.055, Government Code),

 1-9     on page 1, line 22, strike "an adult or".

1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-11                                   AN ACT

1-12     relating to permitting certain law enforcement authorities and

1-13     probation officers to receive reduced airline fares while engaged

1-14     in certain official duties.

1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-16           SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 2171.055, Government Code,

1-17     is amended to read as follows:

1-18           Sec. 2171.055.  PARTICIPATION [BY STATE AGENCIES] IN TRAVEL

1-19     SERVICES CONTRACTS.

1-20           SECTION 2.  Section 2171.055, Government Code, is amended by

1-21     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-22           (e)  A county sheriff or deputy sheriff or an adult or

1-23     juvenile probation officer who is transporting a state prisoner

1-24     under a felony warrant may participate in the commission's contract

1-25     for travel services for purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares

1-26     for the law enforcement or probation officer and the prisoner.  The

1-27     commission may charge a participating county a fee not to exceed

1-28     the costs incurred by the commission in providing services under

1-29     this subsection.  The commission shall periodically review fees and

1-30     shall adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in

1-31     providing services to counties under this subsection.  The

1-32     commission shall adopt rules and make or amend contracts as

1-33     necessary to administer this subsection.

1-34           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-35           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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