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By Seaman H.B. No. 2641
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the funding of certain peer assistance programs.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 467.004, Health and
1-5 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Except as provided by Section 467.0041(b), a [A]
1-7 licensing or disciplinary authority may add a surcharge of not more
1-8 than $5 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved
1-9 peer assistance program. The authority must adopt the surcharge in
1-10 accordance with the procedure that the authority uses to initiate
1-11 and adopt an increase in its license or license renewal fee.
1-12 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 467.0041, Health and
1-13 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (b) The board may add a surcharge of not more than $10 [$5]
1-15 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved peer
1-16 assistance program.
1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.