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 deposit
1-19     the fees collected under this subsection to the credit of the
1-20     county airline fares account.  The county airline fares account is
1-21     an account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated
1-22     only for the purposes of this chapter.  The commission shall adopt
1-23     rules and make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this
1-24     subsection.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 204 passed the Senate on
         February 22, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate
         concurred in House amendment on April 23, 1999, by a viva-voce
         vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 204 passed the House, with
         amendment, on April 16, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor