1-1  By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1659
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 20, 1995; April 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; May 9, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 9, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the fees required of certain persons who practice
    1-9  public accountancy.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 9A, Public Accountancy Act of 1991
   1-12  (Article 41a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
   1-13  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-14        (d)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by
   1-15  Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license
   1-16  holder who is an employee of the federal government or state
   1-17  government who engages in the practice of public accountancy only
   1-18  in the scope of the license holder's employment by the federal
   1-19  government or state government.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee that becomes due
   1-21  on or after the effective date of this Act.  A fee that becomes due
   1-22  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
   1-23  effect at the time the fee became due, and the former law is
   1-24  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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