1-1     By:  Maxey, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Cain)             H.B. No. 822
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
 1-4     Services; April 29, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 822                  By:  Bernsen
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the creation of a task force composed of state and
1-11     county representatives to study federal reimbursements to counties.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  (a)  The task force on federal reimbursements to
1-14     counties is composed of:
1-15                 (1)  the commissioner of health and human services, as
1-16     presiding officer;
1-17                 (2)  nine persons representing counties appointed by
1-18     the commissioner; and
1-19                 (3)  one representative of each agency listed by this
1-20     subdivision appointed by the governing body of the agency:  the
1-21     Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the Texas Youth
1-22     Commission, the Texas Department of Health, the office of the
1-23     attorney general, the Texas Department of Human Services, the Texas
1-24     Juvenile Probation Commission, the Texas Department of Mental
1-25     Health and Mental Retardation, and the Texas Workforce Commission.
1-26           (b)  The task force shall:
1-27                 (1)  study the changes needed to increase federal
1-28     reimbursements to county governments;
1-29                 (2)  identify ways to increase the reimbursement the
1-30     federal government pays for the indirect costs that counties incur
1-31     in administering aid programs; and
1-32                 (3)  identify methods of training employees on ways to
1-33     increase federal reimbursements.
1-34           (c)  The task force shall report on its findings to the 77th
1-35     Legislature, the governor, and the comptroller not later than
1-36     January 15, 2001.
1-37           (d)  The state agencies listed by Subsection (a) (3) of this
1-38     section shall provide staff support to enable the task force to
1-39     carry out its duties.
1-40           (e)  This Act expires February 1, 2001.
1-41           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.
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