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. 1-36 * * * * * 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 1-49 * * * * * 1-50 WITNESSES 1-51 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2042.