By: Goodman H.B. No. 610 73R3121 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tax assessor-collectors who are required to register 1-3 with the Board of Tax Professional Examiners. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 8885, Revised Statutes, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 11A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 11A. EXCEPTION FOR OFFICER OF POPULOUS COUNTY. A tax 1-8 assessor-collector of a county with a population of 1,000,000 or 1-9 more, according to the most recent federal census, is exempt from 1-10 Section 11 of this Act. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.