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.