1-1           By:  Zaffirini                                   S.B. No. 115

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed December 3, 1996; January 14, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human

 1-4     Services; March 3, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;

 1-6     March 3, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 115                By:  Zaffirini

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to certain investigations conducted by the Department of

1-11     Protective and Regulatory Services.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 48.081, Human Resources Code, is amended

1-14     by amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read as

1-15     follows:

1-16           (g)  The department by rule may assign priorities to an

1-17     investigation conducted by the department under this section.  The

1-18     primary criterion used by the department in assigning a priority

1-19     must be the risk that a delay in the investigation will impede the

1-20     collection of evidence.

1-21           (h)  In this section, "community center" has the meaning

1-22     assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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