Sec. 1201.607.  ISSUANCE OF ORDERS AND REQUESTS FOR HEARINGS.  Any order issued by the director under this chapter, if not appealed before the 31st day after the date the order was issued, shall automatically become a final order.  If the person made the subject of the order files a written request for a hearing with the director, the order shall be deemed to have been appealed and shall be a contested case under Chapter 2001, Government Code.  The director shall set any appealed order for a hearing before the State Office of Administrative Hearings, and the board shall issue a final order after receiving and reviewing the proposal for decision issued pursuant to such hearing.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 863 (H.B. 1460), Sec. 63, eff. January 1, 2008.