By Zaffirini                                     S.B. No. 115

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain investigations conducted by the Department of

 1-3     Protective and Regulatory Services.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 48.081, Human Resources Code, is amended

 1-6     by amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read as

 1-7     follows:

 1-8           (g)  The department by rule may assign priorities to an

 1-9     investigation conducted by the department under this section.

1-10           (h)  In this section, "community center" has the meaning

1-11     assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.