By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1602 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to permitting certain students to take the examination for 1-2 a license to practice law in this state. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 82.0241, Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 82.0241. UNACCREDITED SCHOOLS OF LAW. All matters 1-7 relating to licensing of persons who were enrolled at unaccredited 1-8 schools of law in this state are within the exclusive jurisdiction 1-9 of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas and those persons 1-10 graduating from the Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law may not be 1-11 denied examination by the Board of Law Examiners or licensing 1-12 solely on the basis of graduating from that school. 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 82, Government Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 82.0242 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 82.0242. GARZA SCHOOL OF LAW: TEMPORARY PROVISION. 1-16 (a) A person who was enrolled at the Reynaldo G. Garza School of 1-17 Law and who satisfies the law study requirements for taking the 1-18 examination for a license to practice law in this state before June 1-19 1, 1999, may not be denied licensing solely on the basis of having 1-20 been graduated from that school. 1-21 (b) The Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law shall provide 1-22 written notice of this temporary provision to each person who is 1-23 enrolled or was enrolled at the school at any time. 2-1 (c) This section expires June 1, 1999; except that this 2-2 section expires on January 1, 1996, unless the administration of 2-3 the Reynaldo G. Garza School of Law before that date submits to the 2-4 Board of Law Examiners evidence that the school has applied for 2-5 accreditation by the American Bar Association. After application 2-6 for accreditation, the administration shall supply all information 2-7 requested by the Board of Law Examiners relating to the school, 2-8 including information relating to the curriculum and the faculty. 2-9 Until the school has received accreditation from the American Bar 2-10 Association, the administration shall provide quarterly reports to 2-11 the Board of Law Examiners on dates set by the board of the 2-12 progress of the school's accreditation application. If the 2-13 administration does not timely file a quarterly report due under 2-14 this subsection, this section expires on the day after the date on 2-15 which the report was due. 2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-22 passage, and it is so enacted.