Bill Text: TX HB587 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 587

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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-03 - Referred to Delivery of Government Efficiency [HB587 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB587-Introduced.html

	89R1318 CJC-D

	By: Harrison	H.B. No. 587



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.