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. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3150 was passed by the House on April 20, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 3150 was passed by the Senate on May 17, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: __________________________ Date __________________________ Governor