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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor