By Jones of Lubbock                             H.B. No. 2342

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the membership of the Texas Real Estate Inspector

 1-3     Committee.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 23(b)(2), Real Estate License Act

 1-6     (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read

 1-7     as follows:

 1-8                 (2)  The committee is composed of nine members

 1-9     appointed by the commission.  The members of the committee hold

1-10     office for staggered terms of six years, with the terms of three

1-11     members expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year.  Each member

1-12     holds office until the member's successor is appointed.

1-13     Appointments to the committee shall be made without regard to the

1-14     sex, race, color, age, handicap, religion, or national origin of

1-15     the appointees.  In the event of a vacancy during a term, the

1-16     commission shall appoint a replacement who meets the qualifications

1-17     for appointment under this subdivision to fill the unexpired part

1-18     of the term.  A member of the committee must be a professional

1-19     inspector actively engaged in the practice of real estate

1-20     inspecting at the time of appointment and must have been primarily

1-21     engaged in the practice of real estate inspecting for at least five

1-22     years before the member's appointment.  No more than three members

1-23     [A member] of the committee may [not] hold a real estate broker or

1-24     salesman license.  Each member of the  committee is entitled to a

 2-1     per diem allowance and to reimbursement of travel expenses

 2-2     necessarily incurred in performing functions as a member of the

 2-3     committee, subject to any applicable limitation in the General

 2-4     Appropriations Act.  The committee shall annually elect from its

 2-5     members a chairman, a vice-chairman, and secretary.  A quorum of

 2-6     the committee consists of five members.

 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.