Amend SB 1100 on third reading by adding the following new
section of the bill to read as follows and by renumbering
subsequent sections of the bill accordingly:
      SECTION ____.  Section 14(c), The Real Estate License Act
(Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
as follows:
      (c)  Each nonresident applicant shall file an irrevocable
consent that legal actions may be commenced against him in the
proper court of any county of this state in which a cause of action
may arise, or in which the plaintiff may reside, by service of
process or pleading authorized by the laws of this state, or by
serving the administrator or assistant administrator of the
commission.  The consent shall stipulate that the service of
process or pleading shall be valid and binding in all courts as if
personal service had been made on the nonresident in this state.
The consent shall be duly acknowledged, and if made by a
corporation, shall be authenticated by its seal.  A service of
process or pleading served on the commission shall be by duplicate
copies, one of which shall be filed in the office of the commission
and other forwarded by registered mail to the last known principal
address which the commission has for the nonresident against whom
the process or pleading is directed.  No default in an action may
be taken except on certification by the commission that a copy of
the process or pleading was mailed to the defendant as provided in
this section, and no default judgment may be taken in an action or
proceeding until 20 days after the day of mailing of the process or
pleading to the defendant.
      Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, a
resident of another <nonresident of this> state who resides within
one mile of the border of this state <in a city whose boundaries
are contiguous at any point to the boundaries of a city of this
state>, and who has been an actual bona fide resident of the area
in which the person resides <that city> for at least 60 days
immediately preceding the filing of his application, is eligible to
be licensed as a real estate broker or salesman under this Act in
the same manner as a resident of this state.  If he is licensed in
this manner, he shall at all times maintain a place of business
either in the area <city> in which he resides or in a <the> city in
this state which is contiguous to the area <city> in which he
resides, and he may not maintain a place of business at another
location in this state unless he also complies with the
requirements of Section 14(b) of this Act.  The place of business
must satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) of Section 12 of
this Act, but the place of business shall be deemed a definite
place of business in this state within the meaning of Subsection
(a) of Section 12.