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 Subsection (d) 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 who only 1-11 engages in the practice of public accountancy in the scope of the 1-12 license holder's employment by the federal government. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a fee that becomes due 1-14 on or after the effective date of this Act. A fee that becomes due 1-15 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-16 effect at the time the fee became due, and the former law is 1-17 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.