The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation adopted amendments to an existing rule at 16 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Chapter 60, Subchapter B, §60.24, regarding the Procedural Rules of the Commission and the Department.
The adopted rules implement House Bill (HB) 3743, Section 4, 88th Legislature, Regular Session (2023), which exempts the Commission and the Department’s advisory boards from Texas Government Code, Chapter 2110, State Agency Advisory Committees. The adopted rules align the advisory board rules under Chapter 60 with the changes made by HB 3743, Section 4. The adopted rules remove the advisory board abolishment dates and the two separate lists of advisory boards from the Chapter 60 rules; and add a new provision stating that Texas Government Code, Chapter 2110 does not apply to the Commission and the Department’s advisory boards. The adopted rules allow all of the agency’s advisory boards to continue in existence unless and until there is a statutory change made to eliminate an advisory board’s existence.
The adoption justification was published in the June 28, 2024, issue of the Texas Register (49 TexReg 4772). The updated rule chapter will be available in the Texas Administrative Code upon its effective date of July 1, 2024.