By Corte H.B. No. 2181 75R5029 CLG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the law relating to architectural 1-3 barriers to certain licensed facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 9102, Revised Statutes, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) The standards adopted under this article do not apply to 1-8 a facility in which the owner or operator of the facility is: 1-9 (1) licensed to operate the facility by a state 1-10 regulatory agency; and 1-11 (2) required to comply with the Americans with 1-12 Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et 1-13 seq.), as a condition of licensure. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.