1-1     By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 397
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     February 17, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     5, Nays 0; February 17, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to information included in the Texas Information and
 1-9     Referral Network.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 531.0312, Government
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  A health and human services agency or a public or
1-14     private entity receiving state-appropriated funds to provide health
1-15     and human services shall provide the Texas Information and Referral
1-16     Network with information about the health and human services
1-17     provided by the agency or entity for inclusion in the statewide
1-18     information and referral network.  The agency or entity shall
1-19     provide the information in a form determined by the commissioner
1-20     and shall update the information at least quarterly.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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