By Telford                                            H.B. No. 1999
         76R7495 GWK-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance, retirement plans, and other employee
 1-3     benefits available to employees of community supervision and
 1-4     corrections departments.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 76.006(a), Government Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as 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 insurance and retirement plans with a [the most populous]
1-11     county served by the department  and designated for that purpose by
1-12     the district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans],
1-13     and 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           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.