By: Lucio S.B. No. 296
73R4092 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting certain students who are graduates of the
1-3 Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law to take the examination for a
1-4 license to practice law in this state.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 82.0241(a) and (c), Government Code, are
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) A person who was enrolled at the Reynaldo G. Garza
1-9 School of Law located in the City of Edinburg before June 1, 1989,
1-10 and who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the
1-11 examination for a license to practice law in this state before June
1-12 1, 2003 <1993>, may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of
1-13 having been graduated from that school.
1-14 (c) This section expires June 1, 2003 <1993>.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.