76R11120 GWK-D                           
         By Telford                                            H.B. No. 1999
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1999:
         By Greenberg                                      C.S.H.B. No. 1999
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to employee benefits available to employees of community
 1-3     supervision and corrections departments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 76.006, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), department
 1-9     employees are not state employees.  The department shall contract
1-10     for all employee benefits with one [the most populous] county
1-11     served by the department  and designated for that purpose by the
1-12     district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans], and
1-13     the employees are governed by  personnel policies and benefits
1-14     equal to personnel policies for and benefits of other employees of
1-15     that county.
1-16           (h)  If under Subsection (a) the district judge or judges
1-17     change the designation of the county providing employee benefits,
1-18     the district judge or judges may not subsequently change that
1-19     designation before the 10th anniversary of the date on which the
1-20     previous designation was made.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.