By Eiland H.B. No. 452 75R1985 JMM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to registration and renewal fees paid by certain 1-3 registered professional engineers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13B(c), The Texas Engineering Practice 1-6 Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-8 applies to a registration fee, annual renewal fee, or reciprocal 1-9 registration fee paid to the State Board of Registration for 1-10 Professional Engineers that becomes due on or after that date. A 1-11 fee that is collected by the board on or after that date but that 1-12 became due before that date is governed by the law in effect on the 1-13 date that the fee became due, and the former law is continued in 1-14 effect for that purpose. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.