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.