Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 309 amends various laws relating to the application of the sunset review process to certain state agencies and political subdivisions. The bill continues the Texas Department of Economic Development and On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council, both previously scheduled for abolishment in 2001, until 2003 and 2005, respectively. It repeals sunset expiration provisions applicable to the Governor's Committee on Immigration and Refugees, Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, Real Estate Research Center, and governing boards of the Texas School for the Deaf and the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and repeals sunset review provisions applicable to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority, Harris County Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority, Corpus Christi Regional Transit Authority, and Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The bill postpones the sunset dates of the State Board of Barber Examiners, Texas Cosmetology Commission, Texas Veterans Commission, and Veterans' Land Board from 2003 to 2005. It postpones the sunset dates of the Texas Real Estate Commission, Texas Structural Pest Control Board, and Texas Incentive and Productivity Commission from 2003 to 2007, and that of the Polygraph Examiners Board from 2003 to 2009. The sunset date of the State Board of Dental Examiners moves forward from 2005 to 2003, and that of the Risk Management Board moves forward from 2009 to 2007. The Texas Department of Human Services, previously with a sunset date of 2003, has its sunset date postponed until 2011 but becomes--as does the Texas Department of Health--the subject of a special-purpose review requiring a Sunset Advisory Commission report to the next legislature.