1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the definition of the practice of law.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 81.101, Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  In this chapter, the "practice of law" does not include
 1-7     the design, creation, publication, distribution, display, or sale,
 1-8     including publication, distribution, display, or sale by means of
 1-9     an Internet web site, of written materials, books, forms, computer
1-10     software, or similar products if the products clearly and
1-11     conspicuously state that the products are not a substitute for the
1-12     advice of an attorney.  This subsection does not authorize the use
1-13     of the products or similar media in violation of Chapter 83 and
1-14     does not affect the applicability or enforceability of that
1-15     chapter.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1507 was passed by the House on April
         21, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 2, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1507 was passed by the Senate on May
         21, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 26, Nays 4.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor