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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor