78R2801 MI-F
By: Harris S.B. No. 1130
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the office of public interest counsel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5.275, Water Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 5.275. APPEAL. (a) The counsel may appeal a
substantial amendment by the commission to a proposal for decision
from the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
(b) The counsel may, under Section 2001.038, Government
Code, contest the validity of a package of rules adopted by the
commission on the basis that the rules were adopted without proper
legal procedure or that the rules exceed the commission's authority
[A ruling, decision, or other act of the commission may not be
appealed by the counsel].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and
applies to rules finally adopted on or after that date. Rules
finally adopted before that date are governed by the law in effect
on the date the rules were finally adopted, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.