By Gallegos                                           H.B. No. 2289
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration without examination of certain
    1-3  interior designers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 249e, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.  REGISTRATION WITHOUT EXAMINATION.  (a)  A person
    1-8  who has practiced interior design for at least six years before
    1-9  September, 1991, is entitled to registration without examination if
   1-10  the person complies with all other requirements for registration
   1-11  under this article before September 1, 1994 <1992>.
   1-12        (b)  For the purposes of this section, a person is considered
   1-13  to have practiced interior design if the person, independently or
   1-14  in the course of regular employment, performed or offered to
   1-15  perform interior design services or taught interior design at an
   1-16  institution of higher education in an accredited degree program in
   1-17  interior design recognized by the board.  Any combination of
   1-18  periods spent offering interior design services or teaching
   1-19  totaling at least six years satisfies the requirement of this
   1-20  section.
   1-21        (c)  A person who applies for registration before September
   1-22  1, 1994 <1992>, is eligible for registration without examination on
   1-23  the completion of six years of practice as an interior designer if
    2-1  that person was practicing interior design before September 1,
    2-2  1991, and if the person meets all other requirements for
    2-3  registration under this article.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.