73R6606 JRD-F By Wilson H.B. No. 2042 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a state agency's modification of its findings or 1-3 decision in a contested case while the case is on appeal to the 1-4 courts. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 19, Administrative Procedure and Texas 1-7 Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-8 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-9 (h) Except as provided by Subsection (d)(2) of this section, 1-10 after proceedings for review of a contested case have been 1-11 instituted under Subsection (b) of this section an agency may not 1-12 modify its findings or decision in the case during the time that 1-13 the case is under judicial review. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.