By Hightower                                          H.B. No. 2082

         75R7809 JMC-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the Texas Youth Commission to sell or

 1-3     license the right to use a treatment program developed by the

 1-4     commission.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,

 1-7     is amended by adding Section 61.051 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 61.051.  SALE OR LICENSE OF TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

 1-9     (a)  The commission may sell or license to an individual or a

1-10     private or public entity the right to use  a treatment program

1-11     developed by the commission.

1-12           (b)  Proceeds from the sale or license of a treatment program

1-13     shall be deposited to the credit of the fund that provided the

1-14     money to finance the development of the treatment program.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.