By Chisum                                              H.B. No. 880
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition, termination, and duties of the
    1-3  Legislative Natural Resources Board.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 10.02, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
    1-6  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 10.02.  The board is composed of:
    1-9              (1)  the chair of the House Environmental Regulation
   1-10  <Affairs> Committee;
   1-11              (2)  the chair of the Senate Natural Resources
   1-12  Committee;
   1-13              (3)  the chair of the House Natural Resources
   1-14  Committee;
   1-15              (4)  the chair of the Senate Finance Committee;
   1-16              (5)  the chair of the House Appropriations <Government
   1-17  Organization> Committee; and
   1-18              (6)  the chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee.
   1-19        Each member of the board may designate a member of the
   1-20  standing committee he chairs to serve on his behalf in the absence
   1-21  of the committee chair.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 10.03, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   1-23  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   1-24  follows:
    2-1        Sec. 10.03.  The board shall oversee and review the
    2-2  implementation of legislative natural resources policy by state
    2-3  agencies that have the statutory duty to implement that policy.
    2-4  The board shall oversee and review the implementation of federal
    2-5  environmental programs delegated to the state.  The board shall
    2-6  oversee and enforce compliance with the Administrative Procedure
    2-7  and Texas Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil
    2-8  Statutes).  The board may require information and reports from
    2-9  state agencies as necessary to carry out its oversight and review
   2-10  duties.  The board may appoint subcommittees made up from the
   2-11  membership of the standing committees represented on the board.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  Section 10.04, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   2-13  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   2-14  follows:
   2-15        Sec. 10.04.  The board may receive grants, appropriations, or
   2-16  property from any source.  The board may contract with state or
   2-17  federal agencies to support the implementation of legislative
   2-18  natural resource policy.  <shall continue its review and oversight
   2-19  activities during the transition period to the full Texas Natural
   2-20  Resources Conservation Commission.  The board shall terminate its
   2-21  duties effective January 1, 1994.>
   2-22        SECTION 4.  Section 10.05, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   2-23  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   2-24  follows:
   2-25        Sec. 10.05.  At a minimum, the board shall ensure that agency
   2-26  <transition> activities <do not>:
   2-27              (1)  do not delay or prejudice any permit processing
    3-1  activities;
    3-2              (2)  do not result in undue duplication of effort;
    3-3              (3)  do not impede progress toward activities ensuring
    3-4  the delegation of federal environmental programs; <and>
    3-5              (4)  ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act;
    3-6  and
    3-7              (5)  do not result in duplicative or conflicting rules.
    3-8        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-14  passage, and it is so enacted.