82R2334 EAH-F
By: Callegari H.B. No. 1249
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain reports, communications, and publications
involving the attorney general.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 242.005(a) and (c), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The department [and the attorney general each] shall
prepare annually a full report of the operation and administration
of the department's [their respective] responsibilities under this
chapter, including recommendations and suggestions considered
advisable.
(c) The department [and the attorney general] shall submit
the required report [reports] to the governor and the legislature
not later than October 1 of each year.
SECTION 2. Section 247.050(c), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The department [and the attorney general] shall file a
copy of the quarterly reports required by this section with the
substantive committees of each house of the legislature with
jurisdiction over regulation of assisted living facilities.
SECTION 3. Section 61.0815(c), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) The [attorney general and the] president of each
institution of higher education shall collect all necessary data
for inclusion in the report required by this section.
SECTION 4. Section 231.005(a), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The Title IV-D agency shall report to the legislature
each biennium on:
(1) the effectiveness of the agency's child support
enforcement activity in reducing the state's public assistance
obligations; and
(2) the use and effectiveness of all enforcement tools
authorized by state or federal law or otherwise available to the
agency[; and
[(3) the progress and impact of the Title IV-D agency's
efforts to use private contractors to perform Title IV–D program
functions].
SECTION 5. Section 143.056(h), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(h) The department head may order an indefinite suspension
based on an act classified as a felony or a Class A or B misdemeanor
after the 180-day period following the date of the discovery of the
act by the department if the department head considers delay to be
necessary to protect a criminal investigation of the person's
conduct. [If the department head intends to order an indefinite
suspension after the 180-day period, the department head must file
with the attorney general a statement describing the criminal
investigation and its objectives within 180 days after the date the
act complained of occurred.]
SECTION 6. The following provisions are repealed:
(1) Section 236.002(e), Family Code;
(2) Section 402.034, Government Code;
(3) Section 481.168, Government Code;
(4) Section 2107.005, Government Code;
(5) Section 247.050(b), Health and Safety Code; and
(6) Section 240.903, Local Government Code.
SECTION 7. 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, 2011.