1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 487 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 1997; February 12, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 March 10, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, 1-5 Nays 0; March 10, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to payment under contracts with the Texas Rehabilitation 1-9 Commission for vocational rehabilitation services. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 111, Human Resources Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 111.061 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 111.061. CONTRACT PAYMENT. The commission shall base 1-14 payment under a contract for vocational rehabilitation services on 1-15 outcome-based performance standards defined in the contract. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998, and 1-17 applies to each contract for vocational rehabilitation services 1-18 into which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters on or after 1-19 that date. A contract for vocational rehabilitation services into 1-20 which the Texas Rehabilitation Commission enters before that date 1-21 is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the 1-22 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for 1-23 that purpose. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-29 * * * * *