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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