By Eiland H.B. No. 745 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the exemption of certain persons from the requirement 1-3 to be licensed as an engineer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 20, The Texas Engineering Practice Act 1-6 (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: 1-8 (m) A person who claims an exemption from this Act under 1-9 Subsection (e) or (f) of this section who is determined to have 1-10 directly or indirectly held the person out as legally qualified to 1-11 engage in the practice of engineering may not claim an exemption 1-12 under this section until the 10th anniversary of the date the 1-13 person held the person out as qualified to engage in the practice 1-14 of engineering. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-16 applies to a license fee, annual renewal fee, or reciprocal license 1-17 fee paid to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers that becomes 1-18 due on or after that date. A fee that is collected by the board on 1-19 or after that date but that became due before that date is governed 1-20 by the law in effect on the date that the fee became due, and the 1-21 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.