H.B. No. 616
    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.