1-1 By: Wolens (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1507 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 1999; 1-3 April 23, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the definition of the practice of law. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 81.101, Government Code, is amended by 1-11 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-12 (c) In this chapter, the "practice of law" does not include 1-13 the design, creation, publication, distribution, display, or sale, 1-14 including publication, distribution, display, or sale by means of 1-15 an Internet web site, of written materials, books, forms, computer 1-16 software, or similar products if the products clearly and 1-17 conspicuously state that the products are not a substitute for the 1-18 advice of an attorney. This subsection does not authorize the use 1-19 of the products or similar media in violation of Chapter 83 and 1-20 does not affect the applicability or enforceability of that 1-21 chapter. 1-22 SECTION 2. 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 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *