1-1  By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1179
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to veterans organizations filing with the secretary of
    1-9  state.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 4, Article 9023b, Revised
   1-12  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
   1-14  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
   1-15  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
   1-16  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
   1-17  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
   1-18  <A veterans organization that has filed a registration statement
   1-19  under Subsection (a) of this section and that continues to make
   1-20  solicitations through a solicitor shall file an updated statement
   1-21  with the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year
   1-22  during which solicitations will occur>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 6, Article 9023b, Revised
   1-24  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
   1-25        (c)  The effective date of a registration statement issued
   1-26  under this section is the date on which the secretary of state
   1-27  issues the certificate.  A registration statement is effective for
   1-28  one year after its effective date and may be renewed annually by
   1-29  filing a renewal registration statement and paying the filing fee
   1-30  <A solicitor that has filed a registration statement under
   1-31  Subsection (a) of this section shall file an updated statement with
   1-32  the secretary of state on or before January 15 of each year during
   1-33  which the solicitor will solicit on behalf of a veterans
   1-34  organization>.
   1-35        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-36        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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