By Davila                                       H.B. No. 3182

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain grants to community organizations made by the

 1-3     Texas Department of Health.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 85, Health and Safety Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 85.0375 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 85.0375.  DUPLICATE GRANTS FOR SERVICES PROHIBITED.  A

 1-8     grant awarded under this subchapter may not be used to fund

 1-9     services performed by a person if the person is also compensated

1-10     for the same services from another grant or other funds paid by any

1-11     other source.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-13     applies only to a grant awarded under Subchapter B, Chapter 85,

1-14     Health and Safety Code, on or after that date.  A grant awarded

1-15     before September 1, 1997, is governed by the law as it existed

1-16     immediately before the effective date of this Act and that law is

1-17     continued in effect for that purpose.

1-18           SECTION 3.  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.