1-1  By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Montford)               H.B. No. 1620
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to licensing fees of veterinarians.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  The Veterinary Licensing Act (Article 8890,
   1-11  Revised Statutes) is amended by adding Section 25 to read as
   1-12  follows:
   1-13        Sec. 25.  (a)  The license renewal fee established by the
   1-14  Board imposed by or under another section of this Act is increased
   1-15  by $200.
   1-16        (b)  Of each fee increase collected, $50 shall be deposited
   1-17  to the credit of the foundation school fund and $150 shall be
   1-18  deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund. This
   1-19  subsection applies to the disposition of each fee increase
   1-20  regardless of any other provision of the law providing for a
   1-21  different disposition of funds.
   1-22        (c)  The increase in the license renewal fee described in
   1-23  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a license holder
   1-24  who is:
   1-25              (1)  exempt from paying the annual renewal fee under
   1-26  Section 13(f) of this Act; or
   1-27              (2)  on inactive status under Section 10B(b) of this
   1-28  Act.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-30  applies only to a license renewal fee paid on or after the
   1-31  effective date of this Act.  A license renewal fee paid before
   1-32  September 1, 1995, is governed by the law as it existed immediately
   1-33  before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
   1-34  effect for that purpose.
   1-35        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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