By Rodriguez, et al.                                   H.B. No. 850
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 850:
          By Puente                                          C.S.H.B. No. 850
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to permitting certain students to take the examination for
    1-3  a license to practice law in this state.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  Sections 82.0241(a) and (c), Government
    1-6  Code, effective until June 1, 1993, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A person who was enrolled at the Reynaldo G. Garza
    1-8  School of Law <located in the City of Edinburg before June 1,
    1-9  1989,> and who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the
   1-10  examination for a license to practice law in this state before June
   1-11  1, 1999 <1993>, may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of
   1-12  having been graduated from that school.
   1-13        (c)  This section expires June 1, 1999 <1993>.
   1-14        (b)  This section takes effect only if this Act takes effect
   1-15  before June 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  (a)  Subchapter B, Chapter 82, Government Code,
   1-17  is amended by adding Section 82.0242 to read as follows:
   1-18        Sec. 82.0242.  GARZA SCHOOL OF LAW:  TEMPORARY PROVISION.
   1-19  (a)  A person who was enrolled at the Reynaldo G. Garza School of
   1-20  Law and who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the
   1-21  examination for a license to practice law in this state before June
   1-22  1, 1999, may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of having
   1-23  been graduated from that school.
   1-24        (b)  The Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law shall provide
    2-1  written notice of this temporary provision to each person who is
    2-2  enrolled or was enrolled at the school at any time.
    2-3        (c)  This section expires June 1, 1999.
    2-4        (b)  This section takes effect only if this Act takes effect
    2-5  on or after June 1, 1993.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  Section 82.0241, Government Code, to be effective
    2-7  June 1, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    2-8        Sec. 82.0243 <82.0241>.  UNACCREDITED SCHOOLS OF LAW.  All
    2-9  matters relating to licensing of persons who were enrolled at
   2-10  unaccredited schools of law in this state are within the exclusive
   2-11  jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas and those
   2-12  persons graduating from the Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law may not
   2-13  be denied examination by the Board of Law Examiners or licensing
   2-14  solely on the basis of graduating from that school.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-21  passage, and it is so enacted.