By: West S.B. No. 1023

(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2007; March 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies and Economic Development; April 26, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute from Committee on Business and Commerce by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 26, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1023 By: Janek

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to limiting use of money in the Texas Enterprise Fund to recipients that provide health benefit plans.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 481.078, Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:

(k) A grant of money from the fund may not be made to a recipient unless the recipient, as one of the performance targets in the agreement, commits to providing a health benefit plan to the recipient's full-time employees who are employed in a facility or activity financed by the grant.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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