By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 2511
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to administrative hearings and appeals.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Administrative Procedure and Texas Register
    1-5  Act, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat.  Ann. art. 6252-13a, section 3(5) is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7              (5)  "Party" means each person or agency named or
    1-8  admitted as a party.  With respect to agencies, the term means a
    1-9  state agency or agencies either required or permitted to
   1-10  participate in the contested case proceeding.  With respect to
   1-11  persons, the term means a person who has alleged and demonstrated a
   1-12  justiciable interest pursuant to legal rights, duties or privileges
   1-13  affected by the contested case proceeding.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The Administrative Procedure and Texas Register
   1-15  Act, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat.  Ann. art. 6252-13a, section 19(a) is
   1-16  amended to read as follows:
   1-17        A person who i) participated in the administrative hearing
   1-18  process; ii) has exhausted all administrative remedies available
   1-19  within the agency; and iii) is aggrieved by a final decision in a
   1-20  contested case is entitled to judicial review under this Act.  To
   1-21  establish a justiciable interest and perfect a judicial appeal
   1-22  under this section, a person must allege and demonstrate that he
   1-23  has suffered specific, adverse injury or damage other than merely
    2-1  as a member of the general public.  This section is cumulative of
    2-2  other means of redress provided by statute.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity such that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.