By: Montford S.B. No. 903 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to an exemption from the examination required by the Texas 1-2 Board of Architectural Examiners. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 7, Chapter 478, Acts of the 45th 1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's Texas 1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (d) After paying a fee equal to the examination fee and 1-9 filing any forms required by the Board, an applicant who presents 1-10 to the Board a diploma from and, prior to June 15, 1957, is a 1-11 graduate of a recognized university or college of architecture 1-12 approved by the Board shall be granted a certificate to practice 1-13 architecture in this State. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-15 applies only to applications filed with the Texas Board of 1-16 Architectural Examiners on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.