1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 1296
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the notice of a proposed rule requirement in the
1-9 Administrative Procedure Act.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2001.025, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 2001.025. Effective Date of Notice. Notice of a
1-14 proposed rule becomes effective as notice only when each item
1-15 required to be included by Section 2001.024 is published in the
1-16 Texas Register, except as provided by Section 2001.028.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 2001.035, Government
1-18 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (a) A rule adopted after January 1, 1976, is not valid
1-20 unless a state agency adopts it in substantial compliance with
1-21 Sections 2001.023 through 2001.034. A rule proposed and adopted
1-22 after September 1, 1995, is not adopted in substantial compliance
1-23 with Sections 2001.024 and 2001.025 if its notice published in the
1-24 Texas Register does not include each item required to be included
1-25 by Section 2001.024.
1-26 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-27 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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