1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 211 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 21, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 February 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 7, Nays 0; February 15, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the notice of a decision in an administrative hearing 1-9 before a state agency. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 2001.142, Government 1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (c) A party or attorney of record notified by mail under 1-14 Subsection (b) is presumed to have been notified on the third day 1-15 after the date on which the notice is mailed. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-17 applies only to a decision in an administrative hearing before a 1-18 state agency issued on or after that date. A decision in an 1-19 administrative hearing issued before the effective date of this Act 1-20 is governed by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the 1-21 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-27 * * * * *