By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 750
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a review and analysis of the process by which agencies
    1-2  issue permits.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 481.123, Government Code is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Section 481.123.  Duties
    1-7        The office shall:
    1-8              (1)  provide comprehensive information on permits
    1-9  required for business enterprises in the state and make that
   1-10  information available to applicants and other persons;
   1-11              (2)  assist applicants in obtaining timely and
   1-12  efficient permit review and in resolving issues arising from the
   1-13  review;
   1-14              (3)  facilitate contacts between applicants and state
   1-15  agencies responsible for processing and reviewing permit
   1-16  applications;
   1-17              (4)  assist applicants in the resolution of outstanding
   1-18  issues identified by state agencies, including delays experienced
   1-19  in permit review;
   1-20              (5)  develop comprehensive application procedures to
   1-21  expedite the permit process;
   1-22              (6)  compile a comprehensive list of all permits
   1-23  required of a person desiring to establish, operate, or expand a
    2-1  business enterprise in the state;
    2-2              (7)  encourage and facilitate the participation of
    2-3  federal and local government agencies in permit coordination;
    2-4              (8)  make recommendations for eliminating,
    2-5  consolidating, simplifying, expediting, or otherwise improving
    2-6  permit procedures affecting business enterprises, by initiating a
    2-7  business permit re-engineering review process involving all state
    2-8  agencies;
    2-9              (9)  develop and implement an outreach program to
   2-10  publicize and make small business entrepreneurs and others aware of
   2-11  services provided by the office; <and>
   2-12              (10)  adopt rules, procedures, instructions, and forms
   2-13  required to carry out the functions, powers, and duties of the
   2-14  office under this subchapter; and
   2-15              (11)  complete the implementation of the above
   2-16  enumerated business permit review process on or before September 1,
   2-17  1994 and provide all recommended statutory changes as needed to the
   2-18  Texas Legislature on or before January 1, 1995.
   2-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.