Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3882 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Elkins H.B. No. 3882
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to savings of costs or reduction of state liability in the
7	7	operation of various state programs.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 58.0211(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
10	10	to read as follows:
11	11	(c) The authority may not guarantee more than 70 [90]
12	12	percent of a loan to an eligible agricultural business made by a
13	13	private lender.
14	14	SECTION 2. Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
15	15	amended to read as follows:
16	16	Sec. 43.1075. USING HELICOPTERS TO TAKE CERTAIN ANIMALS. A
17	17	qualified landowner or landowner's agent, as determined by
18	18	commission rule, may contract to participate as a hunter or
19	19	observer in using a helicopter to take depredating feral hogs or
20	20	coyotes under the authority of a permit issued under this
21	21	subchapter. The landowner or the landowner's agent is responsible
22	22	for all costs incurred by the department in the performance of a
23	23	contract under this section.
24	24	SECTION 3. Section 442.0083(e), Government Code, is amended
25	25	to read as follows:
26	26	(e) A grant for a historic courthouse project may not
27	27	exceed the greater of $5 [$6] million or 1.75 [two] percent of the
28	28	amount appropriated for implementing the historic courthouse
29	29	preservation program during the state fiscal biennium.
30	30	SECTION 4. Section 33.091(d), Education Code, is amended
31	31	to read as follows:
32	32	(d) The league shall adopt rules for the annual
33	33	administration of a steroid testing program under which high school
34	34	students participating in an athletic competition sponsored or
35	35	sanctioned by the league are tested [at multiple times throughout
36	36	the year] for the presence of steroids in the students' bodies. The
37	37	testing program must:
38	38	(1) require the random testing of a statistically
39	39	significant number of high school students in this state who
40	40	participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the
41	41	league;
42	42	(2) provide for the selection of specific students
43	43	described by Subdivision (1) for testing through a process that
44	44	randomly selects students from a single pool consisting of all
45	45	students who participate in any activity for which the league
46	46	sponsors or sanctions athletic competitions;
47	47	(3) be administered at approximately 20 [30] percent
48	48	of the high schools in this state that participate in athletic
49	49	competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the league;
50	50	(4) provide for a process for confirming any initial
51	51	positive test result through a subsequent test conducted as soon as
52	52	practicable after the initial test, using a sample that was
53	53	obtained at the same time as the sample used for the initial test;
54	54	(5) require the testing to be performed only by an
55	55	anabolic steroid testing laboratory with a current certification
56	56	from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
57	57	of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the
58	58	World Anti-Doping Agency, or another appropriate national or
59	59	international certifying organization; and
60	60	(6) provide for a period of ineligibility from
61	61	participation in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by
62	62	the league for any student with a confirmed positive test result or
63	63	any student who refuses to submit to random testing.
64	64	SECTION 5. (a)
65	65	Section 58.0211(c), Agriculture Code, as
66	66	amended by this Act, applies only to a loan entered into under
67	67	Section 58.0211, Agriculture Code, on or after the effective date
68	68	of this Act. A loan entered into before the effective date of this
69	69	Act is governed by Section 58.0211, Agriculture Code, as it existed
70	70	at the time the loan was entered into, and the former law is
71	71	continued in effect for this purpose.
72	72	(b) Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, as amended by
73	73	this Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after
74	74	the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into under
75	75	Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, before the effective date
76	76	of this Act is governed by Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code,
77	77	as it existed at the time the contract was entered into, and the
78	78	former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
79	79	(c) Section 442.0083(e), Government Code, as amended by
80	80	this Act, applies only to a grant made under Section 442.0083,
81	81	Government Code, in a state fiscal biennium that begins on or after
82	82	the effective date of this Act. A grant made in a state fiscal
83	83	biennium that ended before the effective date of this Act is
84	84	governed by Section 442.0083, Government Code, as it existed at the
85	85	time the grant was made, and the former law is continued in effect
86	86	for this purpose.
87	87	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.