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| 1 | 1 | 81R987 PMO-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Deuell S.B. No. 336 | |
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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to closing state schools. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Section 533.083, Health and Safety Code, is | |
| 10 | 10 | amended to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | Sec. 533.083. [CRITERIA FOR] EXPANSION, CLOSURE, OR | |
| 12 | 12 | CONSOLIDATION OF FACILITY. (a) The department shall establish | |
| 13 | 13 | objective criteria for determining when a new facility may be | |
| 14 | 14 | needed and when a facility may be expanded, closed, or | |
| 15 | 15 | consolidated. | |
| 16 | 16 | (b) If the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | |
| 17 | 17 | Services Commission determines that temporarily or permanently | |
| 18 | 18 | closing a state school would result in a more efficient use of state | |
| 19 | 19 | money or other resources, the executive commissioner may close that | |
| 20 | 20 | state school. | |
| 21 | 21 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 22 | 22 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 23 | 23 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 24 | 24 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 25 | 25 | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |