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