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


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
 
 
  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.
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