Bill Text: TX HB587 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain rules proposed by state agencies in the executive branch of state government be approved by certain elected state officials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB587 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB587-Introduced.html
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| By: Harrison | H.B. No. 587 | |
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| relating to a requirement that certain rules proposed by state | ||
| agencies in the executive branch of state government be approved by | ||
| certain elected state officials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2001.024, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) This subsection applies only to a rule proposed by a | ||
| state agency in the executive branch of state government. In | ||
| addition to any other requirement under this section, the notice of | ||
| a proposed rule to which this subsection applies must include a | ||
| certification that the rule has been reviewed and approved by the | ||
| governor or, if the state agency providing notice of the proposed | ||
| rule is governed by one or more elected state officers, an elected | ||
| state officer of that agency. The certification must be signed by | ||
| the governor or an elected state officer of the agency, as | ||
| applicable. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2001.034, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) This subsection applies only to an emergency rule | ||
| proposed under this section by a state agency in the executive | ||
| branch of state government. Not later than the 10th day after the | ||
| date a state agency adopts an emergency rule to which this | ||
| subsection applies, the agency must submit the rule for approval by | ||
| the governor or, if the agency submitting the rule for approval is | ||
| governed by one or more elected state officers, an elected state | ||
| officer of that agency. Notwithstanding Subsection (c) of this | ||
| section, if the governor or an elected state officer of the agency, | ||
| as applicable, does not approve the emergency rule, the emergency | ||
| rule may not be renewed by the agency and a rule that is | ||
| substantially the same as the disapproved emergency rule may not be | ||
| adopted by the agency under Sections 2001.023 and 2001.029. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a state agency rule proposed on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A rule proposed before that date is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the rule was proposed, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
