(a) Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, the executive commissioner shall administer this chapter beginning on the date specified in the transition plan under Section 531.0204, Government Code, and the commission shall perform the duties and functions of the Texas Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders in the organizational form the executive commissioner determines appropriate.
(b) Following the assumption of the administration of this chapter by the executive commissioner and the duties and functions by the commission in accordance with Subsection (a):
(1) a reference in this chapter to the council, the Texas Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, or an agency represented on the council means the commission, the division or other organizational unit within the commission designated by the executive commissioner, or the executive commissioner, as appropriate; and
(2) a reference in any other law to the Texas Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders has the meaning assigned by Subdivision (1).