By Harris S.B. No. 346
76R3274 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to health and human services regions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Section 531.0246 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 531.0246. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REGIONS. (a) The
1-7 commission may administer health and human services through
1-8 designated regions of this state.
1-9 (b) A health and human services region may not include more
1-10 than one county with a population of one million or more.
1-11 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12 (b) Not later than December 1, 1999, the commissioner of
1-13 health and human services shall conform the health and human
1-14 services regions that exist on the effective date of this Act to
1-15 Section 531.0246, Government Code, as added by this Act.
1-16 (c) On January 1, 2000, the term of a member of the
1-17 Guardianship Advisory Board appointed under Subchapter D, Chapter
1-18 531, Government Code, who represents a health and human services
1-19 region the composition of which has changed to conform to Section
1-20 531.0246, Government Code, as added by this Act, expires. A vacancy
1-21 on the Guardianship Advisory Board that results from the operation
1-22 of this section shall be filled as provided by Section 531.122,
1-23 Government Code.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.