By Hill                                         H.B. No. 2576

      75R7224 KEL-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the composition of the Texas Interagency Council for

 1-3     the Homeless.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2307.002(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless is

 1-8     composed of:

 1-9                 (1)  one representative from each of the following

1-10     agencies, appointed by the administrative head of that agency:

1-11                       (A)  the Texas Department of Health;

1-12                       (B)  the Texas Department of Human Services;

1-13                       (C)  the Texas Department of Mental Health and

1-14     Mental Retardation;

1-15                       (D)  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;

1-16                       (E)  the Texas Department on Aging;

1-17                       (F)  the Texas Rehabilitation Commission;

1-18                       (G)  the Central Education Agency;

1-19                       (H)  the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug

1-20     Abuse;

1-21                       (I)  the Department of Protective and Regulatory

1-22     Services;

1-23                       (J)  the Health and Human Services Commission;

1-24                       (K)  [the Texas Employment Commission;]

 2-1                       [(L)]  the Texas Youth Commission; and

 2-2                       (L) [(M)]  the Texas Veterans Commission; [and]

 2-3                       [(N)  the workforce development division of the

 2-4     Texas Department of Commerce;]

 2-5                 (2)  one representative from the office of the

 2-6     comptroller appointed by the comptroller;

 2-7                 (3)  two representatives from the department, appointed

 2-8     by the director, at least one of whom must be a representative [one

 2-9     each] from the community affairs division [and the housing finance

2-10     division, appointed by the director]; [and]

2-11                 (4)  three members representing service providers to

2-12     the homeless, one each appointed by the governor, the lieutenant

2-13     governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives; and

2-14                 (5)  two representatives from the Texas Workforce

2-15     Commission, one each from the division of workforce development and

2-16     the division of unemployment compensation, appointed by the

2-17     executive director.

2-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.  As soon

2-19     as possible after the effective date of this Act, the director of

2-20     the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the

2-21     executive director of the Texas Workforce Commission shall appoint

2-22     members to the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless in

2-23     accordance with Section 2307.002, Government Code, as amended by

2-24     this Act.

2-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 3-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 3-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.