By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 192
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the licensing of certain persons as attorneys.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 82, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 82.026 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 82.026.  EXAMINATION EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN PERSONS.
 1-7     (a)  The supreme court, by general order, may exempt from the
 1-8     examination requirement for a license to practice law any person
 1-9     who:
1-10                 (1)  has completed the prescribed study in an approved
1-11     law school;
1-12                 (2)  has not previously been licensed to practice law
1-13     in this state; and
1-14                 (3)  has worked in a law office in this state for at
1-15     least 10 consecutive years.
1-16           (b)  A person exempt from examination under this section must
1-17     furnish the evidence as to moral character required of candidates
1-18     to take the bar examination in this state.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.