73R7648 E
          By Chisum                                              H.B. No. 880
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 880:
          By Chisum                                          C.S.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        SECTION 2.  Section 10.03, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   1-20  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   1-21  follows:
   1-22        Sec. 10.03.  The board shall oversee and review the
   1-23  implementation of legislative natural resources policy by state
   1-24  agencies that have the statutory duty to implement that policy.
    2-1  The board shall oversee and review the implementation of federal
    2-2  environmental programs delegated to the state.  The board may
    2-3  require information and reports from state agencies as necessary to
    2-4  carry out its oversight and review duties.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Section 10.04, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
    2-6  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
    2-7  follows:
    2-8        Sec. 10.04.  The board may receive grants, appropriations, or
    2-9  property from any source.  The board may contract with state or
   2-10  federal agencies to support the implementation of legislative
   2-11  natural resource policy.  <shall continue its review and oversight
   2-12  activities during the transition period to the full Texas Natural
   2-13  Resources Conservation Commission.  The board shall terminate its
   2-14  duties effective January 1, 1994.>
   2-15        SECTION 4.  Section 10.05, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   2-16  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   2-17  follows:
   2-18        Sec. 10.05.  At a minimum, the board shall ensure that agency
   2-19  <transition> activities <do not>:
   2-20              (1)  do not delay or prejudice any permit processing
   2-21  activities;
   2-22              (2)  do not result in undue duplication of effort;
   2-23              (3)  do not impede progress toward activities ensuring
   2-24  the delegation of federal environmental programs; <and>
   2-25              (4)  ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act;
   2-26  and
   2-27              (5)  do not result in duplicative or conflicting rules.
    3-1        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-7  passage, and it is so enacted.