By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3740
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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.