87R2661 CJC-F
By: Landgraf H.B. No. 665
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an emergency rule adopted by a state agency during
certain periods of disaster.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2001.034, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), a [A] rule
adopted under this section may be effective for not longer than 120
days and may be renewed once for not longer than 60 days. An
identical rule may be adopted under Sections 2001.023 and 2001.029.
(c-1) This subsection applies only to an emergency rule
adopted during a period in which at least 75 percent of the counties
in this state are declared to be in a state of disaster or emergency
by the governor. An emergency rule to which this subsection applies
may be effective for not longer than 30 days and may be renewed for
not longer than 60 days. The renewal must be approved by majority
vote at a joint hearing of the standing committees of each house of
the legislature with primary jurisdiction over the state agency
seeking to renew the emergency rule.
SECTION 2. Section 2001.034(c-1), Government Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to an emergency rule that is adopted by a
state agency on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.