Relating to the establishment and duties of the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office and the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Advisory Panel.

SB 943 creates the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office within the governor's office and establishes a Texas Regulatory Efficiency Advisory Panel. The office's purpose is to identify inefficiencies in state agencies' rulemaking processes, regulatory reviews, and contested case procedures, and to help eliminate unnecessary rules while reducing costs for regulated entities. Key mechanisms include setting annual goals for agencies to reduce regulatory requirements (such as unnecessary rules or excessive training hours), coordinating with state agencies to improve public access to rule information, and developing a public website for searching rules by occupation or industry. This bill directly affects state agencies and regulated businesses by streamlining regulatory processes and increasing transparency.