1-1     By:  Hightower (Senate Sponsor - West)                H.B. No. 2082

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the authority of the Texas Youth Commission to sell or

 1-9     license the right to use a treatment program developed by the

1-10     commission.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,

1-13     is amended by adding Section 61.051 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 61.051.  SALE OR LICENSE OF TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

1-15     (a)  The commission may sell or license to an individual or a

1-16     private or public entity the right to use  a treatment program

1-17     developed by the commission.

1-18           (b)  Proceeds from the sale or license of a treatment program

1-19     shall be deposited to the credit of the fund that provided the

1-20     money to finance the development of the treatment program.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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