By Cuellar                                            H.B. No. 1038
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the notice of a decision in an administrative hearing
 1-3     before a state agency.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2001.142(c), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A party or attorney of record notified by mail under
 1-8     Subsection (b) is presumed to have been notified on the third day
 1-9     after the date on which the notice is mailed.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-11     applies only to a decision in an administrative hearing before a
1-12     state agency issued on or after that date.  A decision in an
1-13     administrative hearing issued before the effective date of this Act
1-14     is governed by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the
1-15     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.