1-1     By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 874

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 28, 1997; March 5, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 4, 1997,

 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;

 1-5     April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to certain reimbursements of expenses for members of the

 1-9     Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 7, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

1-12     Act (Article 4512c-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to

1-13     read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 7.  COMPENSATION.  A member of the board may not receive

1-15     compensation for serving on the board.  A member is entitled to the

1-16     per diem as set by the General Appropriations Act [legislature] for

1-17     each day that the member performs functions as a member of the

1-18     board and[.  A member] is [not] entitled to reimbursement for

1-19     [travel] expenses [other than transportation expenses.  A member is

1-20     entitled to reimbursement for transportation expenses] as provided

1-21     by the General Appropriations Act.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a travel expense

1-23     incurred on or after the effective date of this  Act.  A travel

1-24     expense incurred before the effective date of this Act is governed

1-25     by the law in effect on the date that it was incurred, and the

1-26     former law is continued in effect for this purpose.

1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.

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