1-1     By:  Kubiak (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                  H.B. No. 1135

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, 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 Subsections (d) and (e) 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 and restricted,

1-17     by virtue of the license holder's employment, from engaging in the

1-18     practice of public accountancy outside the scope of the license

1-19     holder's employment by the federal government.

1-20           (e)  The increase in fees and the additional fee provided by

1-21     Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a license

1-22     holder who is an employee of an agency of the state that has

1-23     authorized the payment of the fee increase and additional fee on

1-24     behalf of the license holder.

1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a fee increase or

1-26     additional fee that becomes due on or after the effective date of

1-27     this Act.  A fee increase or additional fee that becomes due before

1-28     the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at

1-29     the time the fee increase or additional fee became due, and the

1-30     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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