By Stiles H.B. No. 1887
75R5274 MRB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the review and continuation of certain state agencies
1-3 subject to the Texas Sunset Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.127(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The board of directors of the official cotton growers'
1-8 boll weevil eradication foundation is subject to Chapter 325,
1-9 Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence
1-10 as provided by that chapter, the board is abolished and this
1-11 subchapter expires September 1, 2003 [2004].
1-12 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 2003, Government Code, is
1-13 amended by adding Section 2003.023 to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 2003.023. SUNSET PROVISION. The State Office of
1-15 Administrative Hearings is subject to review under Chapter 325
1-16 (Texas Sunset Act), but is not abolished under that chapter. The
1-17 office shall be reviewed during the periods in which state agencies
1-18 abolished in 2003 and every 12th year after 2003 are reviewed.
1-19 SECTION 3. Section 88.524(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (b) The Equine Research Account Advisory Committee is
1-22 subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless
1-23 continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the advisory
1-24 committee is abolished and this subchapter expires September 1,
2-1 2005 [2001].
2-2 SECTION 4. Section 3.606(f), Public Utility Regulatory Act
2-3 of 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
2-4 amended to read as follows:
2-5 (f) The Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board [board]
2-6 is subject to Chapters 551 and 2001, Government Code. The board is
2-7 subject to Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless
2-8 continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the [advisory]
2-9 board is abolished and this section expires [expire] September 1,
2-10 2005 [2006].
2-11 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-12 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.