By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 487 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to payment under contracts with the Texas Rehabilitation 1-2 Commission for vocational rehabilitation services. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 111, Human Resources Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 111.061 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 111.061. CONTRACT PAYMENT. The commission shall base 1-7 payment under a contract for vocational rehabilitation services on 1-8 outcome-based performance standards defined in the contract. 1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998, and 1-10 applies to each contract for vocational rehabilitation services 1-11 into which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters on or after 1-12 that date. A contract for vocational rehabilitation services into 1-13 which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters before that date 1-14 is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the 1-15 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 1-16 that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.