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Agency Rulemaking

Working Drafts

The following working draft chapters are open for informal comment. SORM provides these working drafts as a courtesy, and does not guarantee that the content of the draft nor any recommendations made in an informal comment will be reflected in a future rulemaking proposal.

Please submit all comments regarding agency rule working drafts to rulemaking@sorm.texas.gov.

Rule Notices

The State Office of Risk Management files this Notice of Intent to Review to consider for re­adoption, revision, or repeal the chapters listed below, in their entirety, contained in Title 28, Part 4, of the Texas Administrative Code. This review is being conducted in accordance with Texas Government Code §2001.039.

Rule Chapters Under Review
Chapter 251, State Employees-Workers’ Compensation
Chapter 252, State Risk Management

During the review, the Office will assess whether the reasons for adopting or readopting the rules in these chapters continue to exist. The Office will review each rule to determine whether it is obsolete, whether the rule reflects current legal and policy considerations, whether the rule reflects the Office’s current procedures, and other factors as required by law. This review is required every four years.

Written comments regarding the review of these chapters may be submitted via the following:

By email to rulemaking@sorm.texas.gov;
By facsimile to (512) 370-9025; or
By mail to Deea Western, General Counsel, State Office of Risk Management, P.O. Box 13777 Austin, TX 78711-3777.

The deadline for comments is 30 days after publication of this notice in the Texas Register.

No changes to the rules in these chapters are being proposed at this time. If the Office determines that changes to the rules are necessary as a result of this rule review, the proposed changes will be published in the Proposed Rules section of the Texas Register and will be open for public comment before final adoption by the Office’s Board of Directors.

Proposed Rules

The following rulemaking actions are currently open for public comment. A summary of each proposal is provided in PDF format. Please visit the Texas Register for more information on each proposal.

Please submit all comments regarding agency rule proposals to rulemaking@sorm.texas.gov.

Adopted Rules

SORM’s administrative rules are located at 28 TAC Chapter 251-252, and are available on the Secretary of State’s Website.