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Amend CSSB 277 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 1 of the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly:
SECTION 1.___. Section 40.030, Human Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 40.030. ADVISORY COMMITTEES. (a) The executive commissioner or the executive commissioner's designee may appoint advisory committees in accordance with Chapter 2110, Government Code.
(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules, in compliance with Chapter 2110, Government Code, regarding the purpose, structure, and use of advisory committees by the department. The rules may include provisions governing:
(1) an advisory committee's size and quorum requirements;
(2) qualifications for membership of an advisory committee, including:
(A) requirements relating to experience and geographic representation; and
(B) requirements for the department to include as members of advisory committees youth who have aged out of foster care and parents who have successfully completed family service plans and whose children were returned to the parents, as applicable;
(3) appointment procedures for an advisory committee;
(4) terms for advisory committee members; and
(5) compliance with Chapter 551, Government Code.
(2) On page 45, line 14, between the period and "(a)", add the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter the subsections of SECTION 2.39 accordingly:
(____) Section 162.309, Family Code, as amended by SB 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is repealed.
(3) On page 47, line 9, strike "is" and substitute "and Section 40.073, Human Resources Code, are".