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	Amend SB 408 (House committee printing) as follows:                          

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 	bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  Sections 531.019(a) and (e), Government 
Code, as added by Chapter 1161 (HB 75), Acts of the 80th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  In this section, "public assistance benefits" means 
benefits provided under a public assistance program under Chapter 
31, 32, or 33, Human Resources Code.
	(e)  For purposes of Section 2001.171, an applicant for or 
recipient of public assistance benefits has exhausted all available 
administrative remedies and a decision, including a decision under 
Section 31.034 or 32.035, Human Resources Code, is final and 
appealable on the date that, after a hearing:
		(1)  the hearing officer for the commission or a health 
and human services agency reaches a final decision related to the 
benefits; and
		(2)  the appropriate attorney completes an 
administrative review of the decision and notifies the applicant or 
recipient in writing of the results of that review.
	(b)  The changes in law made by this section apply only to an 
appeal of a final decision by the Health and Human Services 
Commission related to financial assistance benefits under Chapter 
31, Human Resources Code, that is rendered on or after the effective 
date of this Act.  A final decision rendered by the commission 
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 
effect on the date the decision was rendered, and the former law is 
continued in effect for that purpose.
	(2)  In SECTION 7 of the bill (page 2, line 21), strike "The 
changes" and substitute "Except as otherwise provided by this Act, 
the changes".