By: Chisum H.B. No. 880
73R4383 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition and termination of the Legislative
1-3 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 State Affairs <Government
1-17 Organization> Committee; and
1-18 (6) the chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 10.04, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
1-20 Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
1-21 follows:
1-22 Sec. 10.04. The board shall continue its review and
1-23 oversight activities during the transition period to the full Texas
1-24 Natural Resources Conservation Commission. The board shall
2-1 terminate its duties effective January 1, 2005 <1994>.
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,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.