By: Hamric H.B. No. 2530 73R6736 MJW-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requirements for certain rules and internal procedures 1-3 of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and of the Texas Board 1-4 of Criminal Justice. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 21, Administrative Procedure and Texas 1-7 Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-8 amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-9 (j) Sections 12 through 20 of this Act do not apply to a 1-10 rule or internal procedure of the Texas Department of Criminal 1-11 Justice or Texas Board of Criminal Justice that applies to an 1-12 inmate of the institutional division of the department or any other 1-13 person under the custody or control of the department, or to an 1-14 action taken under that rule or procedure. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.