By Staples                                       H.B. No. 403

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                                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.