By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 204
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to permitting county officers and employees to receive
 1-2     reduced airline fares while engaged in official county business.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 2171.055, Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (e)  A county officer or employee who is engaged in official
 1-7     county business may participate in the commission's contract for
 1-8     travel services for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares.
 1-9     A county sheriff or deputy sheriff or juvenile probation officer
1-10     who is transporting a state prisoner under a felony warrant may
1-11     participate in the commission's contract for travel services for
1-12     purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares for the law enforcement
1-13     or probation officer and the prisoner.  The commission may charge a
1-14     participating county a fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the
1-15     commission in providing services under this subsection.  The
1-16     commission shall periodically review fees and shall adjust them as
1-17     needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in providing services
1-18     to counties under this subsection.  The commission shall adopt
1-19     rules and make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this
1-20     subsection.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.