By Eiland H.B. No. 745 76R2546 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to license and renewal fees paid by certain licensed 1-3 professional engineers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13B(c), The Texas Engineering Practice 1-6 Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-8 applies to a license fee, annual renewal fee, or reciprocal license 1-9 fee paid to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers that becomes 1-10 due on or after that date. A fee that is collected by the board on 1-11 or after that date but that became due before that date is governed 1-12 by the law in effect on the date that the fee became due, and the 1-13 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-14 SECTION 3. 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.