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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.
The general administrative procedure law still governs.
The bill deletes the line that let the licensing commission pick its own hearings officer to hear electrician license denial and discipline cases. Those hearings stay under the state's general administrative procedure law, which governs how contested cases are heard. Electricians facing a license denial or discipline get hearings under that general procedure rather than before a commission-designated officer, starting with hearings that begin on or after September 1, 2025.
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Labels: CROSS-PARTY HANDOFF. Lead author Judith Zaffirini (D) in the Senate. Lead sponsor Dade Phelan (R) in the House. Party as the Legislative Reference Library lists it for the 89th Legislature.
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.
WHAT IT DOES
The general administrative procedure law still governs.
The bill deletes the line that let the licensing commission pick its own hearings officer to hear electrician license denial and discipline cases. Those hearings stay under the state's general administrative procedure law, which governs how contested cases are heard. Electricians facing a license denial or discipline get hearings under that general procedure rather than before a commission-designated officer, starting with hearings that begin on or after September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Zaffirini moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 764 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Zaffirini moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 764 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
89R5471 AND-F
By: Zaffirini
S.B. No. 764
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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