85R3417 JXC-F
By: Phillips H.B. No. 642
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 81.001, Natural Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 81.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Texas Energy [Railroad]
Commission [of Texas].
(2) "Commissioner" means any member of the Texas
Energy [Railroad] Commission [of Texas].
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 81, Natural Resources
Code, is amended by adding Section 81.003 to read as follows:
Sec. 81.003. 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.
SECTION 3. (a) On the effective date of this Act:
(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) On and after the effective date of this Act, 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 agency formerly known
as 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.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the date on which the
constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2017, changing the name of the Railroad Commission of
Texas to the Texas Energy Commission and mandating that there be
such an agency takes effect. If that amendment is not approved by
the voters, this Act has no effect.