By:  Sims                                              S.B. No. 961
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the composition, termination, and duties of the
    1-2  Legislative Natural Resources Board.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 10.02, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
    1-5  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 10.02.  The board is composed of:
    1-8              (1)  the chair of the House Environmental Regulation
    1-9  <Affairs> Committee;
   1-10              (2)  the chair of the Senate Natural Resources
   1-11  Committee;
   1-12              (3)  the chair of the House Natural Resources
   1-13  Committee;
   1-14              (4)  the chair of the Senate Finance Committee;
   1-15              (5)  the chair of the House Appropriations <Government
   1-16  Organization> Committee; and
   1-17              (6)  the chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 10.03, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   1-19  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   1-20  follows:
   1-21        Sec. 10.03.  The board shall oversee and review the
   1-22  implementation of legislative natural resources policy by state
   1-23  agencies that have the statutory duty to implement that policy.
    2-1  The board shall oversee and review the implementation of federal
    2-2  environmental programs delegated to the state.  The board may
    2-3  require information and reports from state agencies as necessary to
    2-4  carry out its oversight and review duties.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Section 10.04, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
    2-6  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
    2-7  follows:
    2-8        Sec. 10.04.  The board <shall continue its review and
    2-9  oversight activities during the transition period to the full Texas
   2-10  Natural Resources Conservation Commission.  The board shall
   2-11  terminate its duties effective January 1, 1994.> may receive
   2-12  grants, appropriations, or property from any source.  The board may
   2-13  contract with state or federal agencies to support the
   2-14  implementation of legislative natural resource policy.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  Section 10.05, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd
   2-16  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
   2-17  follows:
   2-18        Sec. 10.05.  At a minimum, the board shall ensure that agency
   2-19  <transition> activities <do not>:
   2-20              (1)  do not delay or prejudice any permit processing
   2-21  activities;
   2-22              (2)  do not result in undue duplication of effort;
   2-23              (3)  do not impede progress toward activities ensuring
   2-24  the delegation of federal environmental programs; <and>
   2-25              (4)  ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act;
    3-1  and
    3-2              (5)  do not result in duplicative or conflicting rules.
    3-3        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
    3-9  terms, and it is so enacted.