1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 218
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 1997; January 21, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 February 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0;
1-6 February 4, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 218 By: Ratliff
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to fees for licensure as an architect.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 6, Chapter 478, Acts of
1-13 the 45th Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a, Vernon's
1-14 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) Each person applying for examination shall pay to the
1-16 Board a uniform fee prescribed by the Board in an amount that is
1-17 reasonable and necessary to defray the cost of administering the
1-18 examination[, but which shall not exceed $300]. The Board shall
1-19 report to each applicant within a reasonable time after the
1-20 examination whether or not the applicant passed or failed the
1-21 examination. An applicant who has passed the examination shall be
1-22 granted a certificate to practice architecture in this State. The
1-23 original certificate herein provided for shall be valid for the
1-24 balance of the current registration year and must be renewed each
1-25 year thereafter in the manner and time provided by law.
1-26 SECTION 2. In establishing fees authorized by Chapter 478,
1-27 Acts of the 45th Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (Article 249a,
1-28 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), the Texas Board of Architectural
1-29 Examiners is not limited to the fee rates prescribed by the General
1-30 Appropriations Act (Chapter 1063, Acts of the 74th Legislature,
1-31 1995, p. VIII-8).
1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38 passage, and it is so enacted.
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