By: Parra H.B. No. 2573 73R6856 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to administrative hearings before the Texas Department of 1-3 Human Services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Human Resources Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 22.0185 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 22.0185. CONTESTED CASES. Notwithstanding Section 1-8 22.018, the State Office of Administrative Hearings shall conduct 1-9 all hearings related to contested cases before the department. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.