1-1     By:  Cuellar (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)               H.B. No. 1912
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to unfunded state mandates on political subdivisions.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 320.001(2), Government Code, is amended
1-11     to read as follows:
1-12                 (2)  "Mandate" ["State mandate"] means a requirement
1-13     made by a statute enacted by the legislature on or after January 1,
1-14     1997, that requires a political subdivision to establish, expand,
1-15     or modify an activity in a way that requires the expenditure of
1-16     revenue by the political subdivision that would not have been
1-17     required in the absence of the statutory provision.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 320.003(a), Government Code, is amended
1-19     to read as follows:
1-20           (a)  On or before the September 1 following a regular session
1-21     of the legislature and on or before the 90th day after the last day
1-22     of a special session of the legislature, the interagency work group
1-23     shall publish a list of mandates for which the legislature has not
1-24     provided reimbursement under Subsection (b) and that were enacted
1-25     by the legislature during that legislative session.  By that same
1-26     date the interagency work group shall:
1-27                 (1)  remove from the list of mandates for a previous
1-28     legislative session those mandates for which the legislature has
1-29     provided reimbursement under Subsection (b), those that are no
1-30     longer subject to reimbursement, and those that are no longer in
1-31     effect; and
1-32                 (2)  add to the list a mandate from a previous
1-33     legislative session for which reimbursement was provided under
1-34     Subsection (b) in the previous session but for which reimbursement
1-35     was not provided in the most recent regular session or in any
1-36     subsequent special sessions.
1-37           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-38           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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