By Ellis                                         S.B. No. 827

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the review of certain state agency requirements imposed

 1-3     on individuals and businesses.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  In this Act:

 1-6                 (1)  "State agency" means a board, commission,

 1-7     department, office, or other agency that is in the executive branch

 1-8     of state government and that was created by the constitution or a

 1-9     statute of the state, excluding institutions of higher education as

1-10     defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.

1-11                 (2)  "Texas Performance Review" means the ongoing study

1-12     of state government directed by the comptroller under Section

1-13     403.022, Government Code.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The comptroller shall include a review of the

1-15     scope, cost, and efficiency of the state's regulatory process in

1-16     the next comprehensive review performed by the Texas Performance

1-17     Review.  The Texas Performance Review staff shall analyze the rules

1-18     of an agency when reviewing that agency and develop recommendations

1-19     to make the agency's regulatory process more efficient.  As part of

1-20     the review process, the Texas Performance Review staff shall obtain

1-21     comments and recommendations from individuals and businesses

1-22     affected by the agency's regulatory process through public hearings

1-23     or other means, including electronic communications.  The Texas

1-24     Performance Review recommendations on the state regulatory process

 2-1     shall be filed with the legislature not later than November 15,

 2-2     1998.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act expires September 1, 1999.

 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.