By Dunnam H.B. No. 2150 75R5608 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the repeal of the exemption of professional services 1-3 from liability under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer 1-4 Protection Act. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 17.49(c) and (d), Business & Commerce 1-7 Code, are repealed. 1-8 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-9 applies to all actions: 1-10 (1) filed on or after the effective date of this Act; 1-11 or 1-12 (2) pending on the effective date of this Act and in 1-13 which the trial, or any new trial or retrial following motion, 1-14 appeal, or otherwise, begins on or after that date. 1-15 (b) In an action filed before the effective date of this 1-16 Act, a trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on the 1-17 effective date of this Act is governed by the applicable law in 1-18 effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in 1-19 effect for that purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.