GOVERNMENT CODE
CHAPTER 104. EDITORIAL POWERS
§ 104.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Council" means the Texas Legislative Council.
(2) "Executive director" means the executive director
of the council.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1278, § 1, eff. June 21, 2003.
§ 104.002. EDITORIAL POWERS FOR SUBTITLE. (a) The
executive director shall perform the duties of revisor of this
subtitle or designate an employee to perform those duties. The
powers provided by this section are authorized as part of the
statutory revision program for the purposes of:
(1) conforming the provisions of this subtitle to Acts
of the legislature that amended or repealed a law referenced in this
subtitle or added new law on the subject matter included in this
subtitle; and
(2) renumbering or relettering chapters, subchapters,
sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, and other
numbered or lettered units included in this subtitle consistently
with the organization and arrangement of the state's codes.
(b) In carrying out these powers the revisor may not alter
the sense, meaning, or effect of a statute. If the revisor is in
doubt whether a specific change is authorized by this section, the
revisor may not make the change but shall incorporate the proposed
change into legislation.
(c) In accordance with this section, the revisor may:
(1) renumber or rearrange sections;
(2) combine sections into other sections;
(3) divide sections into other sections so as to give
to distinct subject matters a section number or letter;
(4) substitute a reference to the proper section for
the terms "this act," "the preceding section," and the like;
(5) substitute figures for written words and vice
versa;
(6) substitute the date on which the law becomes
effective for the words "the effective date of this Act," and the
like;
(7) change capitalization for the purpose of
uniformity;
(8) correct manifest clerical, typographical,
grammatical, or punctuation errors;
(9) correct obviously misspelled words; and
(10) change references to agree with renumbered or
relettered sections or to properly reflect references to other
statutes.
(d) The revisor shall publish proposed actions under this
section in a report the form of which is designed to clearly
identify each proposed action, including words to be added or
deleted, and the purpose of each proposed action. The revisor shall
make the report available on the council's Internet site.
(e) The revisor shall file notice of the report described by
Subsection (d) with the secretary of state for publication in the
Texas Register. The notice must contain:
(1) a brief explanation of the report;
(2) the intended effective date of the proposed
actions;
(3) the Internet address at which the report is
available;
(4) a description of how interested persons may obtain
the text of the report; and
(5) a request for comment on the proposed actions by
affected governmental agencies and any other interested person.
(f) The effective date of actions proposed in the report may
not be earlier than the 61st day after the date notice is published
in the Texas Register.
(g) The revisor shall give all interested persons a
reasonable opportunity to comment on the actions proposed in the
report and shall fully consider all comments.
(h) The final actions of the revisor under this section
shall be effected by order issued by the revisor, filed with the
secretary of state, and published on the council's Internet site.
The order takes effect on the date stated in the order. The
secretary of state shall publish the order in the Texas Register.
(i) The revisor shall make actions under this section
available to each publisher of Texas statutes, and the text of the
statutes published by the publisher shall reflect the actions of
the revisor.
(j) The saving provisions of Section 311.031 apply to
actions by the revisor under this section.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1278, § 1, eff. June 21, 2003.
