By Counts H.B. No. 1782
75R6945 GJH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to professional services in regard to certain state and
1-3 local contracts and fund management.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2254.002(2), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Professional services" means services:
1-8 (A) within the scope of the practice, as defined
1-9 by state law, of:
1-10 (i) accounting;
1-11 (ii) architecture;
1-12 (iii) land surveying;
1-13 (iv) medicine;
1-14 (v) optometry; [or]
1-15 (vi) professional engineering; or
1-16 (vii) real estate appraising; or
1-17 (B) provided in connection with the professional
1-18 employment or practice of a person who is licensed as:
1-19 (i) a certified public accountant;
1-20 (ii) an architect;
1-21 (iii) a land surveyor;
1-22 (iv) a physician, including a surgeon;
1-23 (v) an optometrist; [or]
1-24 (vi) a professional engineer; or
2-1 (vii) a state certified or state licensed
2-2 real estate appraiser.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.