Bill Text: TX SB528 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the term of a chief administrative law judge.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB528-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 528 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 528 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 528 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
