1-1           By:  Armbrister                                  S.B. No. 330

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 28, 1997; February 3, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     February 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas

 1-5     13, Nays 0; February 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the sunset review of the State Office of Administrative

 1-9     Hearings.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 2003, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 2003.023 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 2003.023.  SUNSET PROVISION.  The State Office of

1-14     Administrative Hearings is subject to review under Chapter 325

1-15     (Texas Sunset Act), but is not abolished under that chapter.  The

1-16     office shall be reviewed during the periods in which state agencies

1-17     abolished in 2003 and every 12th year after 2003 are reviewed.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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