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.