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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