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.  Section 4 (c), Chapter 483, Acts of the 73rd
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1993 (Article 9023b, Vernon's Texas
    1-6  Civil Statutes) is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
    1-8  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
    1-9  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
   1-10  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
   1-11  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
   1-12  <A veterans organization that has filed a registration statement
   1-13  under Subsection (a) of this section and that continues to make
   1-14  solicitations through a solicitor shall file an updated statement
   1-15  with the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year
   1-16  during which solicitations will occur>.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 6 (c), Chapter 483, Acts of the 73rd
   1-18  Legislature, Regular Session, 1993 (Article 9023b, Vernon's Texas
   1-19  Civil Statutes) is amended to read as follows:
   1-20        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
   1-21  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
   1-22  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
   1-23  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
    2-1  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
    2-2  <A solicitor that has filed a registration statement under
    2-3  Subsection (a) of this section shall file an updated statement with
    2-4  the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year during
    2-5  which the solicitor will solicit on behalf of a veterans
    2-6  organization>.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.