By Delisi H.B. No. 3116 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exemption from annual registration fees for retired 1-3 physicians performing voluntary charity care. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.01(g), Medical Practice Act (Article 1-6 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (g) The annual registration fee shall apply to all persons 1-9 licensed by the board, whether or not they are practicing within 1-10 the borders of this state, except retired physicians as provided by 1-11 rules of the board. A retired physician licensed by the board 1-12 whose only practice is voluntary charity care is exempt from the 1-13 annual registration fee. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes applies only to registration fees 1-15 due on or after the effective date of this Act. Registration fees 1-16 due before the effective date of this Act are due and payable as 1-17 provided by the prior law, and the prior law is continued in effect 1-18 for that purpose. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.