1-1     By:  Telford (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)            H.B. No. 1999
 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 Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to employee benefits available to employees of community
 1-9     supervision and corrections departments.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 76.006, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-13     follows:
1-14           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), department
1-15     employees are not state employees.  The department shall contract
1-16     for all employee benefits with one [the most populous] county
1-17     served by the department  and designated for that purpose by the
1-18     district judge or judges [for insurance and retirement plans], and
1-19     the employees are governed by  personnel policies and benefits
1-20     equal to personnel policies for and benefits of other employees of
1-21     that county.
1-22           (h)  If under Subsection (a) the district judge or judges
1-23     change the designation of the county providing employee benefits,
1-24     the district judge or judges may not subsequently change that
1-25     designation before the 10th anniversary of the date on which the
1-26     previous designation was made.
1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.
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