1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of a task force composed of state and
1-3 county representatives to study federal reimbursements to counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The task force on federal reimbursements to
1-6 counties is composed of:
1-7 (1) the commissioner of health and human services, as
1-8 presiding officer;
1-9 (2) nine persons representing counties appointed by
1-10 the commmissioner; and
1-11 (3) one representative of each agency listed by this
1-12 subdivision appointed by the governing body of the agency: the
1-13 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the Texas Youth
1-14 Commission, the Texas Department of Health, the office of the
1-15 attorney general, the Texas Department of Human Services, the Texas
1-16 Juvenile Probation Commission, the Texas Department of Mental
1-17 Health and Mental Retardation, and the Texas Workforce Commission.
1-18 (b) The task force shall:
1-19 (1) study the changes needed to increase federal
1-20 reimbursements to county governments;
1-21 (2) identify ways to increase the reimbursement the
1-22 federal government pays for the indirect costs that counties incur
1-23 in administering aid programs; and
1-24 (3) identify methods of training employees on ways to
2-1 increase federal reimbursements.
2-2 (c) The task force shall report on its findings to the 77th
2-3 Legislature, the governor, and the comptroller not later than
2-4 January 15, 2001.
2-5 (d) The state agencies listed by Subsection (a)(3) of this
2-6 section shall provide staff support to enable the task force to
2-7 carry out its duties.
2-8 (e) This Act expires February 1, 2001.
2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 822 was passed by the House on April
8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 822 on May 12, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 822 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor