By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 903
       73R4881 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exemption from the examination required by the Texas
    1-3  Board of Architectural Examiners.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 7(a), Chapter 478, Acts of the 45th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  After paying a fee equal to the examination fee and
    1-9  filing any forms required by the Board, an <An> applicant who
   1-10  presents to the Board <for examination for registration as an
   1-11  architect in this State shall present> a diploma from and is <be> a
   1-12  graduate of a recognized university or college of architecture
   1-13  approved by the Board shall be granted a certificate to practice
   1-14  architecture in this State <and shall also present evidence
   1-15  acceptable to the Board of such applicant's having had satisfactory
   1-16  experience in architecture, in the office or offices of one or more
   1-17  legally practicing architects, as prescribed in the rules and
   1-18  regulations adopted by the Board>.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-20  applies only to applications filed with the Texas Board of
   1-21  Architectural Examiners on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.