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Amend CSHB 2702 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subsection (2) and (10), Section 2301.002, 
Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(2)  "Board" [means the Motor Vehicle Board of the 
Texas Department of Transportation] has the meaning assigned by 
section 2301.005.
		(10)  "Director" means the director [of the board and] 
of the division.
	SECTION ____.  Subsection (a), Section 2301.005, Occupations 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A reference in law, including a rule, to the Texas Motor 
Vehicle Commission or to the board means the director, except that a 
reference to the board means the commission if it relates to the 
promulgation of rules [board].
	SECTION ____.  Section 2301.005, Occupations Code, is 
amended by adding subsection (e) to read as follows:
	(e)  A reference in this chapter to a rule or to a board rule 
means a rule adopted by the commission, except that all board rules 
that were in effect on the effective date of this legislation shall 
remain in effect.
	SECTION ____.  Subsection (c), Section 2301.101, Occupations 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  The director serves at the will of the executive 
director [board].
	SECTION ____.  Section 2301.103, Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 2301.103.  PERSONNEL.  [(a)  The director shall 
appoint and employ personnel necessary to carry out the duties and 
functions of the director and the board under this chapter.]
	[(b)  A division employee is an employee of the department 
and is subject to the human resource rules and policies of the 
department and the transportation commission, except that, as 
applied to a division employee, any powers granted to the executive 
director by those rules and policies shall be exercised by the 
director.]
	[(c)]  A division employee is subject to dismissal if the 
employee has an interest in or is related within the first degree by 
consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, 
Government Code, to a person who has an interest in a business that 
manufactures, distributes, converts, sells, or leases motor 
vehicles.
	SECTION ____.  Section 2301.154, Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 2301.154.  DELEGATION OF POWERS.  The director [board] 
may delegate any of the director's [its] powers to[:]
		[(1)  one or more of its members;]                           
		[(2)  the director; or]                                      
		[(3)]  one or more of the division's [its] employees.
	SECTION ____.  The following provisions are repealed:                          
		(1)  Subchapter B, Chapter 2301, Occupations Code;                            
		(2)  Section 2301.102, Occupations Code;                                      
		(3)  Section 2301.104, Occupations Code;                                      
		(4)  Section 2301.158, Occupations Code; and                                  
		(5)  Section 2301.159, Occupations Code.