By Allen                                              H.B. No. 3150
         77R4627 MI-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to authorizing county officers and employees to receive
 1-3     reduced travel agent fees for travel arrangements for official
 1-4     county business.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 2171.055(e), Government Code, is amended
 1-7     to read as follows:
 1-8           (e)  A county officer or employee who is engaged in official
 1-9     county business may participate in the commission's contract for
1-10     travel services for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares
1-11     and reduced travel agent fees.  A county sheriff or deputy sheriff
1-12     or juvenile probation officer who is transporting a state prisoner
1-13     under a felony warrant may participate in the commission's contract
1-14     for travel services for purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares
1-15     and reduced travel agent fees for the law enforcement or probation
1-16     officer and the prisoner.  The commission may charge a
1-17     participating county a fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the
1-18     commission in providing services under this subsection.  The
1-19     commission shall periodically review fees and shall adjust them as
1-20     needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in providing services
1-21     to counties under this subsection.  The commission shall deposit
1-22     the fees collected under this subsection to the credit of the
1-23     county airline fares account.  The county airline fares account is
1-24     an account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated
 2-1     only for the purposes of this chapter.  The commission shall adopt
 2-2     rules and make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this
 2-3     subsection.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-5     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-6     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 2-7     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 2-8     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.