1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 452
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1997; February 10, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 February 26, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
1-6 February 26, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 452 By: Duncan
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the eligibility requirements for the chief
1-11 administrative law judge of the State Office of Administrative
1-12 Hearings.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 2003.022, Government
1-15 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16 (b) To be eligible for appointment as chief administrative
1-17 law judge, an individual must:
1-18 (1) be licensed to practice law in this state; and
1-19 (2) for at least five years, have:
1-20 (A) practiced administrative law;
1-21 (B) conducted administrative hearings under
1-22 Chapter 2001; or
1-23 (C) engaged in a combination of the two
1-24 activities listed in Paragraphs (A) and (B) [be board certified in
1-25 administrative law; and]
1-26 [(3) have at least five years' experience in
1-27 conducting administrative hearings under Chapter 2001].
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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