By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 1794
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 18, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
  April 24, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 24, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the calculation of costs in interagency contracts
  between certain state agencies and the State Office of
  Administrative Hearings.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2003.024(d), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (d)  This section does not apply to hearings conducted[:
               [(1)  under Section 2003.047 or 2003.049; or
               [(2)]  under the administrative license revocation
  program.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2003.025(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies to a state agency that has entered
  into a contract with the office for the conduct of hearings and
  alternative dispute resolution procedures for the agency,
  including a contract under Section 2003.024 or[, 2003.048,]
  2003.049[, or 2003.105], during any of the three most recent state
  fiscal years.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 2003.048 and 2003.105, Government Code,
  are repealed.
         SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  an interagency contract entered into on or after the effective date
  of this Act. An interagency contract entered into before that date
  is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
  date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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