SRC-AXB S.B. 380 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 380
By: Zaffirini
Human Services
6/10/1999
Enrolled


DIGEST 

Currently, the Texas Department of Human Services can require the attorney
general to conduct a suit to collect penalties against intermediate care
facilities for the mentally retarded.  This bill changes the responsibility
of bringing a suit against such facilities from being an action required by
the attorney general, to being an action the attorney general is authorized
to perform. 

PURPOSE

As enrolled, S.B. 380 revises the attorney general's role in bringing a
suit against an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded from
being required to conduct a suit, to being authorized to institute an
action. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 252.064(c), Health and Safety Code, to
authorize, rather than require, the attorney general to institute an action
in a district court to collect a civil penalty regarding care facilities
for the mentally retarded.  Makes conforming and nonsubstantive changes. 

SECTION 2. Emergency clause.
  Effective date:  upon passage