By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 1302
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the attorney general's authority to bring a suit
 1-3     against intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 252.064(c), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  On [The attorney general, on] request of the department,
 1-8     the attorney general may institute an action in a district court
 1-9     [shall bring and conduct a suit] to collect a civil penalty under
1-10     this section.  Any amount collected shall be remitted to the
1-11     comptroller for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.