By Maxey H.B. No. 2471 76R8832 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to eligibility for support services for persons with 1-3 disabilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Human Resources Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 35.0031 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 35.0031. WAITING LISTS. The department shall implement a 1-8 waiting list of eligible applicants for each community care program 1-9 supported under this chapter. Except as provided by the procedures 1-10 and guidelines adopted by the department under Section 35.002(1), 1-11 applicants shall be selected for participation in a program on the 1-12 basis of the order in which the applications are received by the 1-13 department. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.