1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 985 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999; 1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; April 12, 1999, rereferred to Committee on Human Services; 1-5 May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-6 Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to compliance by state agencies with strategic guidelines 1-10 in developing electronic benefits transfer systems. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 531.045, Government Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-14 (i) A state agency that proposes to deliver public benefits 1-15 through electronic benefits transfers shall comply with any 1-16 strategic guidelines adopted by the task force relating to the 1-17 development and use of an electronic benefits transfer system. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-25 * * * * *