1-1  By:  Wilson (Senate Sponsor - Henderson)              H.B. No. 2042
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
    1-3  May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 18, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 18, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown                                          x   
   1-11        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                         x   
   1-14        West                                           x   
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to a state agency's modification of its findings or
   1-18  decision in a contested case while the case is on appeal to the
   1-19  courts.
   1-20        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-21        SECTION 1.  Section 19, Administrative Procedure and Texas
   1-22  Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-23  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-24        (h)  Except as provided by Subsection (d)(2) of this section,
   1-25  after proceedings for review of a contested case have been
   1-26  instituted under Subsection (b) of this section an agency may not
   1-27  modify its findings or decision in the case during the time that
   1-28  the case is under judicial review.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-34  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-35  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-37                                                         Austin,
   1-38  Texas
   1-39                                                         May 18, 1993
   1-40  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-41  President of the Senate
   1-42  Sir:
   1-43  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-44  No. 2042, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-45  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-46  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-47                                                         Henderson,
   1-48  Chairman
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   1-50                               WITNESSES
   1-51  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2042.