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. 1-48 * * * * *