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.