By Zaffirini S.B. No. 487 75R5427 SAW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to payment under contracts with the Texas Rehabilitation 1-3 Commission for vocational rehabilitation services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 111, Human Resources Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 111.061 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 111.061. CONTRACT PAYMENT. The commission shall base 1-8 payment under a contract for vocational rehabilitation services on 1-9 outcome-based performance standards defined in the contract. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998, and 1-11 applies to each contract for vocational rehabilitation services 1-12 into which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters on or after 1-13 that date. A contract for vocational rehabilitation services into 1-14 which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters before that date 1-15 is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the 1-16 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 1-17 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.