By Uher                                               H.B. No. 3135
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the notice of a proposed rule requirement in the
    1-3  Administrative Procedure Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2001.025, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 2001.025.  Effective Date of Notice.  Notice of a
    1-8  proposed rule becomes effective as notice only when each item
    1-9  required to be included by Section 2001.024 is published in the
   1-10  Texas Register, except as provided by Section 2001.028.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 2001.035, Government
   1-12  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  A rule adopted after January 1, 1976, is not valid
   1-14  unless a state agency adopts it in substantial compliance with
   1-15  Sections 2001.023 through 2001.034.  A rule proposed and adopted
   1-16  after September 1, 1995, is not adopted in substantial compliance
   1-17  with Sections 2001.024 and 2001.025 if its notice published in the
   1-18  Texas Register does not include each item required to be included
   1-19  by Section 2001.024.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.