By Junell                                             H.B. No. 1620
       74R6082 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to licensing and examination fees of veterinarians;
    1-3  imposing a fee.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Veterinary Licensing Act (Article 8890,
    1-6  Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 25 to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 25.  (a)  The following fees imposed by or under another
    1-9  section of this Act are increased by $200:
   1-10              (1)  any examination fee established by the Board; and
   1-11              (2)  any license renewal fee established by the Board.
   1-12        (b)  Of each fee increase collected, $50 shall be deposited
   1-13  to the credit of the foundation school fund and $150 shall be
   1-14  deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund. This
   1-15  subsection applies to the disposition of each fee increase
   1-16  regardless of any other provision of the law providing for a
   1-17  different disposition of funds.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-19  applies only to an examination fee or license renewal fee paid on
   1-20  or after the effective date of this Act. An examination fee or
   1-21  license renewal fee paid before September 1, 1995, is governed by
   1-22  the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this
   1-23  Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.