SRC-BWC H.B. 2812 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research Center H.B. 2812 By: Wolens (Cain) Administration 5/4/2001 Engrossed DIGEST AND PURPOSE The Texas Legislative Council is required by law to carry out a complete nonsubstantive revision of the Texas statutes. The process involves reclassifying and rearranging the statutes in a more logical order; employing a numbering system and format that will accommodate future expansion of the law; eliminating invalid, duplicated, and other ineffective provisions; and improving the draftsmanship of law if practicable. These efforts are carried out in order to make the statutes more accessible, understandable, and usable without altering the sense, meaning, or effect of the law. H.B. 2812 makes nonsubstantive revisions to and corrections in enacted code, to the nonsubstantive codification or disposition of various laws omitted from enacted codes, and to conforming codifications enacted by the 76th Legislature to other Acts of that legislature. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY Rulemaking authority is expressly granted to various state officers, institutions, and agencies, throughout this bill. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS S.B. 1630 provides for the nonsubstantive revision of all codes, as follows: ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. (Pages 1 - 2 of bill.) ARTICLE 2. CHANGES RELATING TO BUSINESS & COMMERCE CODE. (Pages 2 - 5 of bill.) ARTICLE 3. CHANGES RELATING TO CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. (Pages 5 - 18 of bill.) ARTICLE 4. CHANGES RELATING TO EDUCATION CODE. (Pages 18 - 36 of bill.) ARTICLE 5. CHANGES RELATING TO FAMILY CODE. (Pages 36 - 46 of bill.) ARTICLE 6. CHANGES RELATING TO FINANCE CODE. (Pages 46 - 98 of bill.) ARTICLE 7. CHANGES RELATING TO GOVERNMENT CODE: ADOPTION OF TITLE 11. (Pages 99 - 139 of bill.) ARTICLE 8. CHANGES RELATING TO TITLE 9, GOVERNMENT CODE. (Pages 139 - 276 of bill.) ARTICLE 9. OTHER CHANGES RELATING TO GOVERNMENT CODE. (Pages 277 - 299 of bill.) ARTICLE 10. CHANGES RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE. (Pages 299 - 307 of bill.) ARTICLE 11. CHANGES RELATING TO INSURANCE CODE. (Pages 307 - 320 of bill.) ARTICLE 12. CHANGES RELATING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE. (Pages 320 - 333 of bill.) ARTICLE 13. Reserved. ARTICLE 14. CHANGES RELATING TO OCCUPATIONS CODE. (Pages 333 - 824 of bill.) ARTICLE 15. CHANGES RELATING TO PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE. (Pages 824 - 825 of bill.) ARTICLE 16. CHANGES RELATING TO PENAL CODE. (Pages 825 - 826 of bill.) ARTICLE 17. CHANGES RELATING TO PROPERTY CODE. (Pages 826 - 829 of bill.) ARTICLE 18. CHANGES RELATING TO TAX CODE. (Pages 829 - 854 of bill.) ARTICLE 19. CHANGES RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION CODE. (Pages 854 - 861 of bill.) ARTICLE 20. CHANGES RELATING TO UTILITIES CODE. (Pages 861 - 862 of bill.) ARTICLE 21. RENUMBERING. (PAGES 862 - 888 of bill.) ARTICLE 22. Effective date: September 1, 2001, except Section 8.104 takes effect, upon passage, July 1, 2001. If Section 8.104 fails to receive the necessary votes, effective date for that section is September 1, 2001.