By Duncan S.B. No. 211 76R1754 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the notice of a decision in an administrative hearing 1-3 before a state agency. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2001.142(c), Government Code, is amended 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A party or attorney of record notified by mail under 1-8 Subsection (b) is presumed to have been notified on the third day 1-9 after the date on which the notice is mailed. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-11 applies only to a decision in an administrative hearing before a 1-12 state agency issued on or after that date. A decision in an 1-13 administrative hearing issued before the effective date of this Act 1-14 is governed by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the 1-15 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.