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          By Saunders                                           H.B. No. 1862
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the renewal of certain business, occupational, and
    1-3  professional licenses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
    1-6              (1)  "License" means any license, certificate,
    1-7  registration, permit, or other form of authorization that must be
    1-8  obtained by an individual to engage in a particular business,
    1-9  occupation, or profession.
   1-10              (2)  "State agency" means any department, board,
   1-11  bureau, commission, committee, division, office, council, or agency
   1-12  of the state.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  RENEWAL OF LICENSE.  (a)  Notwithstanding any
   1-14  other provision of law, a state agency that issues a license shall
   1-15  renew the license of an individual whose license has expired  when
   1-16  the individual has met renewal requirements and paid the required
   1-17  renewal fee.  An individual may not be required to pass an
   1-18  examination to renew the license.
   1-19        (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to an
   1-20  individual whose license has been:
   1-21              (1)  revoked or suspended by a state agency; or
   1-22              (2)  expired for more than two years.
   1-23        (c)  If an individual seeks to renew a license that has been
   1-24  expired for more than two years, the state agency that issued the
    2-1  license shall review the application of the individual and may
    2-2  renew the license once the individual meets existing requirements
    2-3  for renewal and pays all required fees.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  ADOPTION OF RULES.  A state agency that is
    2-5  subject to this Act shall adopt rules that comply with the
    2-6  requirements of this Act for the renewal of a license issued by the
    2-7  agency not later than November 1, 1993.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  (a)  This Act takes effect
    2-9  September 1, 1993.
   2-10        (b)  This Act applies only to the renewal of a license by a
   2-11  state agency on or after November 1, 1993.
   2-12        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   2-13  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.