By Corte                                              H.B. No. 2802
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to permitting certain students to take the examination for
    1-3  a license to practice law in this state.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 82.0241 is amended and new subsections
    1-6  (b), (c) and (d) are added to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 82.0241.  Unaccredited Schools of Law.  (a)  All matters
    1-8  relating to licensing of persons who were enrolled at unaccredited
    1-9  schools of law in this state are within the exclusive jurisdiction
   1-10  of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas and those persons
   1-11  graduating from the San Antonio Law Center may not be denied
   1-12  examination by the Board of Law Examiners or licensing solely on
   1-13  the basis of graduating from that school.
   1-14        (b)  A person who was enrolled at the San Antonio Law Center
   1-15  and who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the
   1-16  examination for a license to practice law in this state before
   1-17  August 1, 1998, may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of
   1-18  having been graduated from that school.
   1-19        (c)  This section expires August 1, 1998.  This section
   1-20  expires on January 1, 1996 unless the administration of San Antonio
   1-21  Law Center before that date submits to the Board of Law Examiners
   1-22  evidence that the school has applied for accreditation by the
   1-23  American Bar Association.
    2-1        (d)  This section takes effect only if this Act takes effect
    2-2  before June 1, 1996.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 82, Government Code, is
    2-4  amended by adding Section 82.0242 to read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 82.0242.  SAN ANTONIO LAW CENTER:  TEMPORARY PROVISION.
    2-6  (a)  A person who was enrolled at the San Antonio Law Center and
    2-7  who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the examination
    2-8  for a license to practice law in this state before August 1, 1998,
    2-9  may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of having been
   2-10  graduated from that school.
   2-11        (b)  The San Antonio Law Center shall provide written notice
   2-12  of this temporary provision to each person who is enrolled or was
   2-13  enrolled at the school at any time.
   2-14        (c)  This section expires August 1, 1998.  This section
   2-15  expires on January 1, 1996 unless the administration of San Antonio
   2-16  Law Center before that date submits to the Board of Law Examiners
   2-17  evidence that the school has applied for accreditation by the
   2-18  American Bar Association.
   2-19        (d)  This section takes effect only if this Act takes effect
   2-20  on or after June 1, 1996.
   2-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be 37 suspended, and this rule is hereby
    3-1  suspended.