By Staples H.B. No. 403
75R2086 PEP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the membership of the Correctional Managed Health Care
1-3 Advisory Committee to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 501.059(b), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The committee consists of:
1-8 (1) two members employed full-time by the department
1-9 [, at least one of whom is a physician,] appointed by the executive
1-10 director; and
1-11 (2) three citizen [two] members [employed full-time by
1-12 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, at least one
1-13 of whom is a physician,] appointed by the governor, including:
1-14 (A) one member who has experience as a health
1-15 care professional;
1-16 (B) one member who has experience in hospital
1-17 administration; and
1-18 (C) one member who possesses knowledge of
1-19 correctional or medical issues [president of the medical branch;
1-20 and]
1-21 [(3) two members employed full-time by the Texas Tech
1-22 University Health Sciences Center, at least one of whom is a
1-23 physician, appointed by the president of the university].
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-1 SECTION 3. As soon as possible on or after the effective
2-2 date of this Act, the governor and the executive director of the
2-3 Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall make their appointments
2-4 to the Correctional Managed Health Care Advisory Committee to the
2-5 Texas Department of Criminal Justice to achieve the membership
2-6 plan prescribed by Section 501.059(b), Government Code, as amended
2-7 by this Act. The positions of the appointed members who are
2-8 serving immediately before the effective date of this Act are
2-9 abolished on the appointment of the new members by the governor and
2-10 the executive director.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.