By Maxey H.B. No. 985 76R3513 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to compliance by state agencies with strategic guidelines 1-3 in developing electronic benefits transfer systems. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 531.045, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-7 (i) A state agency that proposes to deliver public benefits 1-8 through electronic benefits transfers shall comply with any 1-9 strategic guidelines adopted by the task force relating to the 1-10 development and use of an electronic benefits transfer system. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.