By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2342
75R8280 BEM-D
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.