By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 211
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the notice of a decision in an administrative hearing
 1-2     before a state agency.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 2001.142, Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  A party or attorney of record notified by mail under
 1-7     Subsection (b) is presumed to have been notified on the third day
 1-8     after the date on which the notice is mailed.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-10     applies only to a decision in an administrative hearing before a
1-11     state agency issued on or after that date.  A decision in an
1-12     administrative hearing issued before the effective date of this Act
1-13     is governed by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the
1-14     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.