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Texas Human Resources Code - Section 22.009. Advisory Committees

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§ 22.009. ADVISORY COMMITTEES.  (a) The board shall 
appoint advisory committees on the recommendation of the 
commissioner to assist the board in performing its duties.
	(b)  The board shall appoint each advisory committee to 
provide for a balanced representation of the general public, 
providers, consumers, and other persons, state agencies, or groups 
with knowledge of and interest in the committee's field of work.
	(c)  The board shall specify each advisory committee's 
purpose, powers, and duties and shall require each committee to 
report to the board in a manner specified by the board concerning 
the committee's activities and the results of its work.
	(d)  The board shall establish procedures for receiving 
reports concerning activities and accomplishments of advisory 
committees established to advise the board or department.  The 
board on the recommendation of the commissioner may appoint 
additional members to those committees and establish additional 
duties of those committees as the board determines to be necessary.
	(e)  The board shall adopt rules to implement this section.  
Those rules must provide that during the development of rules 
relating to an area in which an advisory committee exists the 
committee must be allowed to assist in the development of and to 
comment on the rules before the rules are finally adopted.  The 
rules may allow the department to bypass this procedure only in an 
emergency situation.  However, the department shall submit 
emergency rules to the appropriate advisory committee for review at 
the first committee meeting that occurs after the rules are 
adopted.
	(f)  A member of an advisory committee receives no 
compensation but is entitled to reimbursement for transportation 
expenses and the per diem allowance for state employees in 
accordance with the General Appropriations Act.
	(g)  Subsections (c) through (f) of this section apply to 
each department advisory committee created under this section or 
under other law.

Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 1052, § 1.11(a), eff. Sept. 1, 
1987.  

Last modified: August 11, 2007