74R10976 JMM-D
          By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 2600
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the fees required of certain persons who practice
    1-3  public accountancy.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 9A, Public Accountancy Act of 1991
    1-6  (Article 41a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
    1-8        (d)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by
    1-9  Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license
   1-10  holder who is an employee of the federal government and restricted,
   1-11  by virtue of the license holder's employment, from engaging in the
   1-12  practice of public accountancy outside the scope of the license
   1-13  holder's employment by the federal government.
   1-14        (e)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by
   1-15  Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license
   1-16  holder who is an employee of an agency of the state that has
   1-17  authorized the payment of the fee increase and additional fee on
   1-18  behalf of the license holder.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee increase or
   1-20  additional fee that becomes due on or after the effective date of
   1-21  this Act.  A fee increase or additional fee that becomes due before
   1-22  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
   1-23  the time the fee increase or additional fee became due, and the
   1-24  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.