73R5285 JMM-D
          By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 1924
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the fees required of certain persons who practice
    1-3  public accountancy.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 9A, Public Accountancy Act of 1991
    1-6  (Article 41a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-8        (d)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by
    1-9  Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license
   1-10  holder who is an employee of the federal government who only
   1-11  engages in the practice of public accountancy in the scope of the
   1-12  license holder's employment by the federal government.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee that becomes due
   1-14  on or after the effective date of this Act.  A fee that becomes due
   1-15  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
   1-16  effect at the time the fee became due, and the former law is
   1-17  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.