By Hochberg                                            H.B. No. 386
       74R2151 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the adoption of certain emergency rules under the
    1-3  Administrative Procedure Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2001.034, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  In this section, "requirement of state law" means a
    1-8  state statute that specifically refers to this section and
    1-9  expressly requires a state agency to adopt an emergency rule.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 2001.034(e), Government Code, as added by
   1-11  this Act, applies only to an emergency rule adopted on or after the
   1-12  effective date of this Act.  An emergency rule adopted before that
   1-13  date is governed by the law in effect at the time of the rule's
   1-14  adoption, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-15  purpose.
   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.