Bill Text: TX HB3882 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to savings of costs or reduction of state liability in the operation of various state programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3882 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3882-Introduced.html

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By: Elkins H.B. No. 3882

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to savings of costs or reduction of state liability in the
operation of various state programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 58.0211(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) The authority may not guarantee more than 70 [90]
percent of a loan to an eligible agricultural business made by a
private lender.
SECTION 2. Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 43.1075. USING HELICOPTERS TO TAKE CERTAIN ANIMALS. A
qualified landowner or landowner's agent, as determined by
commission rule, may contract to participate as a hunter or
observer in using a helicopter to take depredating feral hogs or
coyotes under the authority of a permit issued under this
subchapter. The landowner or the landowner's agent is responsible
for all costs incurred by the department in the performance of a
contract under this section.
SECTION 3. Section 442.0083(e), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) A grant for a historic courthouse project may not
exceed the greater of $5 [$6] million or 1.75 [two] percent of the
amount appropriated for implementing the historic courthouse
preservation program during the state fiscal biennium.
SECTION 4. Section 33.091(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) The league shall adopt rules for the annual
administration of a steroid testing program under which high school
students participating in an athletic competition sponsored or
sanctioned by the league are tested [at multiple times throughout
the year] for the presence of steroids in the students' bodies. The
testing program must:
(1) require the random testing of a statistically
significant number of high school students in this state who
participate in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the
league;
(2) provide for the selection of specific students
described by Subdivision (1) for testing through a process that
randomly selects students from a single pool consisting of all
students who participate in any activity for which the league
sponsors or sanctions athletic competitions;
(3) be administered at approximately 20 [30] percent
of the high schools in this state that participate in athletic
competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the league;
(4) provide for a process for confirming any initial
positive test result through a subsequent test conducted as soon as
practicable after the initial test, using a sample that was
obtained at the same time as the sample used for the initial test;
(5) require the testing to be performed only by an
anabolic steroid testing laboratory with a current certification
from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the
World Anti-Doping Agency, or another appropriate national or
international certifying organization; and
(6) provide for a period of ineligibility from
participation in an athletic competition sponsored or sanctioned by
the league for any student with a confirmed positive test result or
any student who refuses to submit to random testing.
SECTION 5. (a)
Section 58.0211(c), Agriculture Code, as
amended by this Act, applies only to a loan entered into under
Section 58.0211, Agriculture Code, on or after the effective date
of this Act. A loan entered into before the effective date of this
Act is governed by Section 58.0211, Agriculture Code, as it existed
at the time the loan was entered into, and the former law is
continued in effect for this purpose.
(b) Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after
the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into under
Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, before the effective date
of this Act is governed by Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code,
as it existed at the time the contract was entered into, and the
former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
(c) Section 442.0083(e), Government Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a grant made under Section 442.0083,
Government Code, in a state fiscal biennium that begins on or after
the effective date of this Act. A grant made in a state fiscal
biennium that ended before the effective date of this Act is
governed by Section 442.0083, Government Code, as it existed at the
time the grant was made, and the former law is continued in effect
for this purpose.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.