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.