S.B. No. 1179
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to veterans organizations filing with the secretary of
    1-2  state.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 4, Article 9023b, Revised
    1-5  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
    1-7  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
    1-8  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
    1-9  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
   1-10  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
   1-11  <A veterans organization that has filed a registration statement
   1-12  under Subsection (a) of this section and that continues to make
   1-13  solicitations through a solicitor shall file an updated statement
   1-14  with the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year
   1-15  during which solicitations will occur>.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 6, Article 9023b, Revised
   1-17  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
   1-18        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
   1-19  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
   1-20  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
   1-21  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
   1-22  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
   1-23  <A solicitor that has filed a registration statement under
    2-1  Subsection (a) of this section shall file an updated statement with
    2-2  the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year during
    2-3  which the solicitor will solicit on behalf of a veterans
    2-4  organization>.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-6        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.