1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 770
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1997; March 3, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; March 24, 1997,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-5 March 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the funding of certain peer assistance programs.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 467.004, Health and
1-11 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) Except as provided by Section 467.0041(b), a [A]
1-13 licensing or disciplinary authority may add a surcharge of not more
1-14 than $5 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved
1-15 peer assistance program. The authority must adopt the surcharge in
1-16 accordance with the procedure that the authority uses to initiate
1-17 and adopt an increase in its license or license renewal fee.
1-18 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 467.0041, Health and
1-19 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-20 (b) The board may add a surcharge of not more than $10 [$5]
1-21 to its license or license renewal fee to fund an approved peer
1-22 assistance program.
1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-24 SECTION 4. 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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