By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 942
         99S0583/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the coordination of public transportation services.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 459.003, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-4     by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
 1-5     follows:
 1-6           (c)  A social services provider receiving information under
 1-7     Subsection (b) shall, not later than January 1 of each year,
 1-8     provide to the transportation provider and the department an
 1-9     inventory of current contracts and in-house capital resources for
1-10     the provision of client transportation services within each
1-11     transportation provider's service area or an area contiguous to the
1-12     service area that is not served by a transportation provider.
1-13           (e)  The department shall compile a statewide database to
1-14     document transportation expenses and track the number of instances
1-15     in which social service contract dollars are actually awarded to
1-16     transportation providers as a result of information furnished in
1-17     compliance with this section.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.