By: Ratliff S.B. No. 218
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to fees for licensure as an architect.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 6, Chapter 478, Acts of
1-4 the 45th Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's
1-5 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Each person applying for examination shall pay to the
1-7 Board a uniform fee prescribed by the Board in an amount that is
1-8 reasonable and necessary to defray the cost of administering the
1-9 examination[, but which shall not exceed $300]. The Board shall
1-10 report to each applicant within a reasonable time after the
1-11 examination whether or not the applicant passed or failed the
1-12 examination. An applicant who has passed the examination shall be
1-13 granted a certificate to practice architecture in this State. The
1-14 original certificate herein provided for shall be valid for the
1-15 balance of the current registration year and must be renewed each
1-16 year thereafter in the manner and time provided by law.
1-17 SECTION 2. In establishing fees authorized by Chapter 478,
1-18 Acts of the 45th Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a,
1-19 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), the Texas Board of Architectural
1-20 Examiners is not limited to the fee rates prescribed by the General
1-21 Appropriations Act (Chapter 1063, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
1-22 1995, p. VIII-8).
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.