1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing a governmental body to discuss its test
 1-3     questions in a closed meeting.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 551.086 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 551.086.  DELIBERATION REGARDING TEST ITEM.  This
 1-8     chapter does not require a governmental body to conduct an open
 1-9     meeting to deliberate a test item or information related to a test
1-10     item if the governmental body believes that the test item may be
1-11     included in a test the governmental body administers to individuals
1-12     who seek to obtain or renew a license or certificate that is
1-13     necessary to engage in an activity.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 595 was passed by the House on April
         8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 595 was passed by the Senate on May
         19, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor