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By Capelo, Goodman H.B. No. 2871
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2871:
By Truitt C.S.H.B. No. 2871
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the funding and construction of post-adjudication
1-3 facilities for certain children.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 141.086(g), (h), (i), (j), and (k),
1-6 Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (g) For a facility constructed under this section, [the
1-8 following amounts may be appropriated:]
1-9 [(1) not more than 50 percent of the operating costs
1-10 of the facility during the 1997 fiscal year; and]
1-11 [(2)] not more than 25 percent of the operating costs
1-12 of the facility may be reimbursed by the commission [during each of
1-13 the 1998 and 1999 fiscal years].
1-14 (h) It is the intent of the legislature to appropriate the
1-15 full amount of money authorized under Subsection (g)[(2)].
1-16 (i) [On and after September 1, 1999, a facility constructed
1-17 under this section must be operated entirely by the county using
1-18 the facility.]
1-19 [(j)] The commission shall conduct an annual audit of the
1-20 operating costs for a fiscal year of a facility constructed under
1-21 this section for each fiscal year for which funds are appropriated
1-22 unless the county in which the facility is located has conducted an
1-23 annual audit [through fiscal year 1999]. The commission shall
1-24 submit a report on the results of its or the county's [the] audit
2-1 to the Legislative Budget Board and the governor not later than the
2-2 60th day after the last day of the fiscal year covered by the
2-3 audit.
2-4 (j) [(k)] In this section, "operating costs" means the
2-5 operating costs of a facility at an 80-percent occupancy rate.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.