By: Moncrief S.B. No. 770
97S0321/2
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the funding of certain peer assistance programs.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 467.004, Health and
1-4 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) Except as provided by Section 467.0041(b), a [A]
1-6 licensing or disciplinary authority may add a surcharge of not more
1-7 than $5 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved
1-8 peer assistance program. The authority must adopt the surcharge in
1-9 accordance with the procedure that the authority uses to initiate
1-10 and adopt an increase in its license or license renewal fee.
1-11 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 467.0041, Health and
1-12 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The board may add a surcharge of not more than $10 [$5]
1-14 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved peer
1-15 assistance program.
1-16 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 4. 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.