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.
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