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.