By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 1135

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the fees required of certain persons who practice

 1-3     public accountancy.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 9A, Public Accountancy Act of 1991

 1-6     (Article 41a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by

 1-7     adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by

 1-9     Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license

1-10     holder who is an employee of the federal government and restricted,

1-11     by virtue of the license holder's employment, from engaging in the

1-12     practice of public accountancy outside the scope of the license

1-13     holder's employment by the federal government.

1-14           (e)  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 an agency of the state that has

1-17     authorized the payment of the fee increase and additional fee on

1-18     behalf of the license holder.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee increase or

1-20     additional fee that becomes due on or after the effective date of

1-21     this Act.  A fee increase or additional fee that becomes due before

1-22     the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at

1-23     the time the fee increase or additional fee became due, and the

1-24     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.