1-1 By: Counts, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan) H.B. No. 1782
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 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to professional services in regard to certain state and
1-9 local contracts and fund management.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2254.002(2), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (2) "Professional services" means services:
1-14 (A) within the scope of the practice, as defined
1-15 by state law, of:
1-16 (i) accounting;
1-17 (ii) architecture;
1-18 (iii) land surveying;
1-19 (iv) medicine;
1-20 (v) optometry; [or]
1-21 (vi) professional engineering; or
1-22 (vii) real estate appraising; or
1-23 (B) provided in connection with the professional
1-24 employment or practice of a person who is licensed as:
1-25 (i) a certified public accountant;
1-26 (ii) an architect;
1-27 (iii) a land surveyor;
1-28 (iv) a physician, including a surgeon;
1-29 (v) an optometrist; [or]
1-30 (vi) a professional engineer; or
1-31 (vii) a state certified or state licensed
1-32 real estate appraiser.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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