1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to unfunded state mandates on political subdivisions.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 320.001(2), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6                 (2)  "Mandate" ["State mandate"] means a requirement
 1-7     made by a statute enacted by the legislature on or after January 1,
 1-8     1997, that requires a political subdivision to establish, expand,
 1-9     or modify an activity in a way that requires the expenditure of
1-10     revenue by the political subdivision that would not have been
1-11     required in the absence of the statutory provision.
1-12           SECTION 2.  Section 320.003(a), Government Code, is amended
1-13     to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  On or before the September 1 following a regular session
1-15     of the legislature and on or before the 90th day after the last day
1-16     of a special session of the legislature, the interagency work group
1-17     shall publish a list of mandates for which the legislature has not
1-18     provided reimbursement under Subsection (b) and that were enacted
1-19     by the legislature during that legislative session.  By that same
1-20     date the interagency work group shall:
1-21                 (1)  remove from the list of mandates for a previous
1-22     legislative session those mandates for which the legislature has
1-23     provided reimbursement under Subsection (b), those that are no
1-24     longer subject to reimbursement, and those that are no longer in
 2-1     effect; and
 2-2                 (2)  add to the list a mandate from a previous
 2-3     legislative session for which reimbursement was provided under
 2-4     Subsection (b) in the previous session but for which reimbursement
 2-5     was not provided in the most recent regular session or in any
 2-6     subsequent special sessions.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-8           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1912 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1912 was passed by the Senate on May
         20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor