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. 1-39 * * * * *