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.

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