85R5982 DMS-D
 
  By: Birdwell S.B. No. 528
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the term of a chief administrative law judge.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2003.022(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The office is under the direction of a chief
  administrative law judge appointed by the governor for a two-year
  term that expires on May 15 of each even-numbered year. The chief
  administrative law judge is eligible for reappointment.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2003.022(a), Government Code, as amended
  by this Act, applies only to a chief administrative law judge
  appointed under that section on or after the effective date of this
  Act.  A chief administrative law judge appointed before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
  immediately before that date and that law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.