By: Birdwell S.B. No. 528
(In the Senate - Filed January 19, 2017; February 8, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 28, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; March 28, 2017, sent to printer.)
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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.
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