By Stiles, Wilson, Berlanga, Craddick, H.B. No. 1642 Linebarger, et al. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the process under which state agencies and other 1-3 entities are periodically reviewed under the Texas Sunset Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 325, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 325.025 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 325.025. REVIEW OF SUNSET. (a) The Select Committee 1-8 on Sunset Review is composed of 10 members appointed as follows: 1-9 (1) four members must be state senators and are 1-10 appointed by the lieutenant governor; 1-11 (2) one member must be a representative of the general 1-12 public and is appointed by the lieutenant governor; 1-13 (3) four members must be state representatives and are 1-14 appointed by the speaker of the house; and 1-15 (4) one member must be a representative of the general 1-16 public and is appointed by the speaker of the house. 1-17 (b) The lieutenant governor shall designate one of the 1-18 lieutenant governor's appointees as the initial presiding officer 1-19 of the committee, and the speaker of the house shall designate one 1-20 of the speaker's appointees as the initial assistant presiding 1-21 officer. The initial presiding officer and initial assistant 1-22 presiding officer serve in those capacities for a period ending 1-23 June 1, 1994. The speaker of the house shall designate the 1-24 succeeding presiding officer, and the lieutenant governor shall 2-1 designate the succeeding assistant presiding officer. 2-2 (c) Each member of the committee is entitled to 2-3 reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in 2-4 performing functions as a member of the committee. A legislative 2-5 member is entitled to reimbursement from the appropriate fund of 2-6 the member's house. A public member is entitled to reimbursement 2-7 from funds appropriated or made available to the committee. 2-8 (d) The committee shall meet at the call of the presiding 2-9 officer of the committee and as provided by the rules of the 2-10 committee. 2-11 (e) The committee may make an agreement with the state 2-12 senate or house of representatives, an institution of higher 2-13 education, a consulting firm, or any other entity as necessary for 2-14 the committee to obtain adequate staff to conduct the review. 2-15 (f) The committee shall review the performance of the 2-16 commission and the process by which state agencies are reviewed by 2-17 the commission. In the review, the committee shall: 2-18 (1) apply to the commission and consider the factors 2-19 described by Sections 325.011(1), (2), (4), and (5); 2-20 (2) consider other factors the committee considers 2-21 appropriate to perform a thorough review; and 2-22 (3) examine specifically the extent to which functions 2-23 of the commission are duplicated, or can be performed more 2-24 efficiently or effectively, by a committee of the state senate or 2-25 house of representatives or by another state legislative or 2-26 executive agency. 2-27 (g) The committee shall prepare a report containing its 3-1 findings from the review and its recommendations on improving the 3-2 process by which state agencies are reviewed and by which oversight 3-3 of the agencies is performed. The committee shall give the report 3-4 to the 74th Legislature when it convenes in 1995. 3-5 (h) This section expires June 1, 1995. 3-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 3-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.