By: Deuell S.B. No. 899
(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2009; March 9, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Government
Organization; March 25, 2009, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 25, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to hospital district participation in state travel service
contracts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2171.055, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) An officer or employee of a hospital district created
under general or special law who is engaged in official hospital
district business may participate in the commission's contract for
travel services for the purpose of obtaining reduced airline fares
and reduced travel agent fees. The commission may charge a
participating hospital district a fee not to exceed the costs
incurred by the commission in providing services under this
subsection. The commission shall periodically review fees and
shall adjust them as needed to ensure recovery of costs incurred in
providing services to hospital districts under this subsection.
The commission shall deposit the fees collected under this
subsection to the credit of the hospital district airline fares
account. The hospital district airline fares account is an account
in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the
purposes of this chapter. The commission shall adopt rules and make
or amend contracts as necessary to administer this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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