1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 380
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 1999; February 4, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     February 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     4, Nays 0; February 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the attorney general's authority to bring a suit
 1-9     against intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 252.064, Health and
1-12     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  On [The attorney general, on] request of the department,
1-14     the attorney general may institute an action in a district court
1-15     [shall bring and conduct a suit] to collect a civil penalty under
1-16     this section.  Any amount collected shall be remitted to the
1-17     comptroller for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
1-25                                  * * * * *