1-1     By:  Greenberg (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)           H.B. No. 3740
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
 1-4     Services; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the location of administrative hearings conducted by
 1-9     the State Office of Administrative Hearings on behalf of the
1-10     Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 40.066, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-13     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-14           (f)  Unless otherwise agreed by all parties to a contested
1-15     case, a hearing conducted by the State Office of Administrative
1-16     Hearings on behalf of  the department under this section must be
1-17     held in the department's administrative region in which the conduct
1-18     at issue in the case occurred.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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