By Johnson H.B. No. 2527 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the administrative procedures applicable to hearings 1-3 governing licensing and disciplinary actions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Administrative Procedure and Texas Register 1-6 Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-7 by adding Section 13D to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 13D. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or 1-9 of Chapter 591, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 1-10 (Article 6252-13f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes): 1-11 (1) disciplinary hearings shall be heard before the 1-12 governing board of the applicable state agency, with the 1-13 administrative law judge presiding; 1-14 (2) if other law prescribes a procedure for the hearing of a 1-15 disciplinary action, that law prevails to the extent of conflict; 1-16 (3) petitions for reinstatement shall be heard before the 1-17 governing board of the applicable state agency and not before an 1-18 administrative law judge; and 1-19 (4) all costs of an administrative hearing relating to a 1-20 license holder who is determined to have violated law or rules 1-21 governing the license holder's conduct shall be assessed against 1-22 the license holder. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that is Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.