By Christian                                           H.B. No. 642
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the review of proposed rules of health and human
 1-3     services agencies.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 531.034(b), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  The commission shall review agency rules:
 1-8                 (1)  for compliance with:
 1-9                       (A) [(1)]  the coordinated strategic plan;
1-10                       (B) [(2)]  existing statutory authority;
1-11                       (C) [(3)]  rules of other health and human
1-12     services agencies; and
1-13                       (D) [(4)]  budgetary implications; and
1-14                 (2)  to ensure that the rules do not:
1-15                       (A)  discourage marriage;
1-16                       (B)  encourage divorce; or
1-17                       (C)  discourage participation in the workforce.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.