AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the sunset review of the State Office of Administrative

 1-2     Hearings.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 2003, Government Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 2003.023 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 2003.023.  SUNSET PROVISION.  The State Office of

 1-7     Administrative Hearings is subject to review under Chapter 325

 1-8     (Texas Sunset Act), but is not abolished under that chapter.  The

 1-9     office shall be reviewed during the periods in which state agencies

1-10     abolished in 2003 and every 12th year after 2003 are reviewed.

1-11           SECTION 2.  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,

1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 330 passed the Senate on

         February 26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 330 passed the House on

         May 7, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor