By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 2471
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                                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.