By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1179
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.