1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the location of administrative hearings conducted by
1-3 the State Office of Administrative Hearings on behalf of the
1-4 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 40.066, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-7 by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-8 (f) Unless otherwise agreed by all parties to a contested
1-9 case, a hearing conducted by the State Office of Administrative
1-10 Hearings on behalf of the department under this section must be
1-11 held in the department's administrative region in which the conduct
1-12 at issue in the case occurred.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3740 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3740 was passed by the Senate on May
20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor