1-1  By:  Kubiak (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 2600
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the fees required of certain persons who practice
    1-9  public accountancy.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 9A, Public Accountancy Act of 1991
   1-12  (Article 41a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
   1-13  adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
   1-14        (d)  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 the federal government and restricted,
   1-17  by virtue of the license holder's employment, from engaging in the
   1-18  practice of public accountancy outside the scope of the license
   1-19  holder's employment by the federal government.
   1-20        (e)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by
   1-21  Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license
   1-22  holder who is an employee of an agency of the state that has
   1-23  authorized the payment of the fee increase and additional fee on
   1-24  behalf of the license holder.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee increase or
   1-26  additional fee that becomes due on or after the effective date of
   1-27  this Act.  A fee increase or additional fee that becomes due before
   1-28  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
   1-29  the time the fee increase or additional fee became due, and the
   1-30  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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