1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 204 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 20, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; February 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; February 15, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to permitting county officers and employees to receive 1-9 reduced airline fares while engaged in official county business. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 2171.055, Government 1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (e) A county officer or employee who is engaged in official 1-14 county business may participate in the commission's contract for 1-15 travel services for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares. 1-16 A county sheriff or deputy sheriff or juvenile probation officer 1-17 who is transporting a state prisoner under a felony warrant may 1-18 participate in the commission's contract for travel services for 1-19 purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares for the law enforcement 1-20 or probation officer and the prisoner. The commission may charge a 1-21 participating county a fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the 1-22 commission in providing services under this subsection. The 1-23 commission shall periodically review fees and shall adjust them as 1-24 needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in providing services 1-25 to counties under this subsection. The commission shall adopt 1-26 rules and make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this 1-27 subsection. 1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *