By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 764
(In the Senate - Filed January 10, 2025; February 7, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
March 4, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; March 4, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procedure for a hearing by the Texas Department of
Licensing and Regulation on the denial of an electrician's license
or disciplinary action against an electrician.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1305.253(b), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The proceedings relating to a license denial and
disciplinary action by the department under this chapter are
governed by Chapter 2001, Government Code. [A hearing under this
chapter may be conducted by a hearings officer designated by the
commission.]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a hearing that commences on or after the effective date of this
Act. A hearing that commences before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect on the date the hearing commenced,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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