1-1     By:  Allen (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                  H.B. No. 3150
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001;
 1-3     April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2001, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to authorizing county officers and employees to receive
 1-9     reduced travel agent fees for travel arrangements for official
1-10     county business.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1. Section 2171.055(e), Government Code, is amended
1-13     to read as follows:
1-14           (e)  A county officer or employee who is engaged in official
1-15     county business may participate in the commission's contract for
1-16     travel services for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares
1-17     and reduced travel agent fees.  A county sheriff or deputy sheriff
1-18     or juvenile probation officer who is transporting a state prisoner
1-19     under a felony warrant may participate in the commission's contract
1-20     for travel services for purposes of obtaining reduced airline fares
1-21     and reduced travel agent fees for the law enforcement or probation
1-22     officer and the prisoner.  The commission may charge a
1-23     participating county a fee not to exceed the costs incurred by the
1-24     commission in providing services under this subsection.  The
1-25     commission shall periodically review fees and shall adjust them as
1-26     needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in providing services
1-27     to counties under this subsection.  The commission shall deposit
1-28     the fees collected under this subsection to the credit of the
1-29     county airline fares account.  The county airline fares account is
1-30     an account in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated
1-31     only for the purposes of this chapter.  The commission shall adopt
1-32     rules and make or amend contracts as necessary to administer this
1-33     subsection.
1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-35     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-36     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-37     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-38     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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