73R2926 CAG-D
By Schechter H.B. No. 616
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the exemption of certain psychologists from career
1-3 counseling services requirements.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 222, Acts of the 70th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 5221a-8, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 2. Exceptions. This Act does not apply to:
1-9 (1) a person regulated by Chapter 263, Acts of the
1-10 66th Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 5221a-7, Vernon's
1-11 Texas Civil Statutes);
1-12 (2) a personnel service operated by the United States,
1-13 this state, any political subdivision of this state, or any
1-14 organization receiving appropriated funds from or under contract
1-15 with those governmental entities;
1-16 (3) a professional counselor licensed under the
1-17 Licensed Professional Counselor Act (Article 4512g, Vernon's Texas
1-18 Civil Statutes); <or>
1-19 (4) a nonprofit organization qualifying under Section
1-20 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, providing a service
1-21 described in this Act as part of its charitable purposes; or
1-22 (5) a person licensed as a psychologist under the
1-23 Psychologists' Certification and Licensing Act (Article 4512c,
1-24 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) when practicing within the scope of
2-1 the license.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.