By:  Rabuck                                            H.B. No. 784
       73R2613 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to notification to the legislature of proposed state
    1-3  agency rules.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5(g), Administrative Procedure and Texas
    1-6  Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (g)  Each house of the legislature shall adopt rules
    1-9  establishing a process under which the presiding officer of each
   1-10  house shall refer each proposed agency rule to the appropriate
   1-11  standing committee for review prior to adoption of the rule.  Not
   1-12  later than the 30th day before the date <When> an agency files
   1-13  notice of a proposed rule with the secretary of state pursuant to
   1-14  Subsection (a) of this section, the agency <it> shall <also>
   1-15  deliver a copy of the notice to the lieutenant governor and the
   1-16  speaker.  On the vote of a majority of its members, a standing
   1-17  committee may transmit to the agency a statement supporting or
   1-18  opposing adoption of a proposed rule.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993, and
   1-20  applies only to each proposed state agency rule the notice of which
   1-21  is filed on or after the 30th day after that date.  A proposed
   1-22  agency rule the notice of which is filed before the 30th day after
   1-23  the effective date is governed by the law as it existed immediately
   1-24  before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
    2-1  continued in effect for this purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.