AN ACT
1-1 relating to the eligibility requirements for the chief
1-2 administrative law judge of the State Office of Administrative
1-3 Hearings.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 2003.022, Government
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) To be eligible for appointment as chief administrative
1-8 law judge, an individual must:
1-9 (1) be licensed to practice law in this state; and
1-10 (2) for at least five years, have:
1-11 (A) practiced administrative law;
1-12 (B) conducted administrative hearings under
1-13 Chapter 2001; or
1-14 (C) engaged in a combination of the two
1-15 activities listed in Paragraphs (A) and (B) [be board certified in
1-16 administrative law; and]
1-17 [(3) have at least five years' experience in
1-18 conducting administrative hearings under Chapter 2001].
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 452 passed the Senate on
April 2, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 452 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