Bill Text: TX SB528 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 528 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the term of a chief administrative law judge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB528 Detail]

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	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.