By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 397
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to information included in the Texas Information and
 1-2     Referral Network.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 531.0312, Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A health and human services agency or a public or
 1-7     private entity receiving state-appropriated funds to provide health
 1-8     and human services shall provide the Texas Information and Referral
 1-9     Network with information about the health and human services
1-10     provided by the agency or entity for inclusion in the statewide
1-11     information and referral network.  The agency or entity shall
1-12     provide the information in a form determined by the commissioner
1-13     and shall update the information at least quarterly.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.