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         By Ratliff                                             S.B. No. 218

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 218:

         By Junell                                          C.S.S.B. No. 218

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to fees for certain examinations required for registration

 1-3     as an architect.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6, Chapter 478, Acts of the 45th

 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's Texas

 1-7     Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to

 1-8     read as follows:

 1-9           (e)  A person applying to take an examination who has passed

1-10     parts of a previous examination and who is only required to pass

1-11     one or two parts of the examination for which the person is

1-12     applying in order to fulfill the examination requirement for

1-13     registration shall pay to the Board a fee prescribed by the Board

1-14     in an amount not to exceed $300.  This subsection expires September

1-15     1, 1997.

1-16           (f)  The Board may not enter into an agreement to increase

1-17     the cost of the examination until a series of public hearings are

1-18     held around the state to determine whether the fee increase is

1-19     acceptable.  During the series of public hearings, public comment

1-20     is to be taken and entered into the House Journal.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

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

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.