By Eiland                                             H.B. No. 1170
       74R400 PB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to registration and renewal fees paid by certain
    1-3  registered professional engineers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 13B(c), The Texas Engineering Practice
    1-6  Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
    1-8  applies to a registration fee, annual renewal fee, or reciprocal
    1-9  registration fee paid to the State Board of Registration for
   1-10  Professional Engineers that becomes due on or after that date.  A
   1-11  fee that is collected by the board on or after that date but that
   1-12  became due before that date is governed by the law in effect on the
   1-13  date that the fee became due, and the former law is continued in
   1-14  effect for that purpose.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  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.