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.