By Ratliff S.B. No. 218
75R3888 BEM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the examination fee for licensure as an architect.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6(b), Chapter 478, Acts of the 45th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Each person applying for examination shall pay to the
1-8 Board a uniform fee prescribed by the Board in an amount that is
1-9 reasonable and necessary to defray the cost of administering the
1-10 examination [, but which shall not exceed $300]. The Board shall
1-11 report to each applicant within a reasonable time after the
1-12 examination whether or not the applicant passed or failed the
1-13 examination. An applicant who has passed the examination shall be
1-14 granted a certificate to practice architecture in this State. The
1-15 original certificate herein provided for shall be valid for the
1-16 balance of the current registration year and must be renewed each
1-17 year thereafter in the manner and time provided by law.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.