Bill Text: TX HB1106 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1106 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1106-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Phillips, Keffer, King of Parker, Anchia | H.B. No. 1106 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1106: | |||
By: King of Parker | C.S.H.B. No. 1106 |
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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 [ |
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Commission [ |
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(2) "Commissioner" means any member of the Texas | ||
Energy [ |
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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 84th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2015, changing the name of the Railroad Commission of | ||
Texas to the Texas Energy Commission takes effect. If that | ||
amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. |