By Woolley                                            H.B. No. 1560
         76R5766 WP-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to judicial review of the secretary of state's refusal to
 1-3     register or renew a trademark or service mark.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 16.24(a), Business & Commerce Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  If the secretary of state takes final [Final] action
 1-8     refusing to register a mark under Section 16.109 or to renew the
 1-9     registration of  a mark under Section 16.14, the applicant or
1-10     registrant may file [taken or a final decision made by the
1-11     secretary of state under this chapter may be reviewed by a] suit
1-12     for review of the secretary of state's  decision [filed] in one of
1-13     the Travis County district courts.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.