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79R3799 MTB-F

By:  West                                                         H.B. No. 1078



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to changing the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas to 
the Texas Energy Commission.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 81, Natural Resources 
Code, is amended by adding Section 81.002 to read as follows:
	Sec. 81.002.  TEXAS ENERGY COMMISSION.  (a)  The Railroad 
Commission of Texas is renamed the Texas Energy Commission.
	(b)  A reference in law to the Railroad Commission of Texas 
means the Texas Energy Commission.
	(c)  The Texas Energy Commission is the successor agency to 
the Railroad Commission of Texas under Subsection (b), Section 30, 
Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  Effective January 1, 2006:                                    
		(1)  the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas is 
changed to the Texas Energy Commission, and all powers, duties, 
rights, and obligations of the Railroad Commission of Texas are the 
powers, duties, rights, and obligations of the Texas Energy 
Commission;
		(2)  a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas is a 
member of the Texas Energy Commission; and
		(3)  any appropriation to the Railroad Commission of 
Texas is an appropriation to the Texas Energy Commission.
	(b)  Effective January 1, 2006, a reference in law to the 
Railroad Commission of Texas is a reference to the Texas Energy 
Commission.
	(c)  The Texas Energy Commission is the successor to the 
Railroad Commission of Texas in all respects.  All personnel, 
equipment, data, documents, facilities, contracts, items, other 
property, rules, decisions, and proceedings of or involving the 
Railroad Commission of Texas are unaffected by the change in the 
name of the agency.
	(d)  The Railroad Commission of Texas shall adopt a timetable 
for phasing in the change of the agency's name so as to minimize the 
fiscal impact of the name change.  Until January 1, 2006, to allow 
for phasing in the change of the agency's name and in accordance 
with the timetable established as required by this section, the 
agency may perform any act authorized by law for the Railroad 
Commission of Texas as the Railroad Commission of Texas or as the 
Texas Energy Commission.  Any act of the Railroad Commission of 
Texas acting as the Texas Energy Commission after the effective 
date of this Act and before January 1, 2006, is an act of the 
Railroad Commission of Texas.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.