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