By Uher                                               H.B. No. 2175
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the regulation of the practice of chiropractic.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 5, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
 1-6     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 5.  The Board shall maintain records regarding each
 1-8     person licensed or registered with the Board.  The records must
 1-9     include that name, residence address, and address of each place of
1-10     business at which the person engages in the practice of
1-11     chiropractic [preserve a record of its proceedings in a book kept
1-12     for that purpose, showing name, age, place, and duration of
1-13     residence of each applicant, the time spent in the study of
1-14     chiropractic in respective chiropractic schools, together with such
1-15     other information as the Board may desire to record.  Said register
1-16     shall also show whether applicants were rejected or licensed and
1-17     shall be prima-facie evidence of all matters contained therein.
1-18     The secretary of the Board shall on May 1st of each year transmit
1-19     an official copy of said register to the Secretary of State for
1-20     permanent record, a certified copy of which, with hand and seal of
1-21     the secretary of said Board or the hand of the Secretary of State
1-22     under the state seal, shall be admitted in evidence in all courts].
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 5a(c), Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
1-24     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
 2-1     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 2-2           (c)  The Board shall bring an action for injunctive
 2-3     proceedings or other civil proceedings as necessary to enforce this
 2-4     Act. [A person who violates this section commits an offense.  An
 2-5     offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.  If it is
 2-6     shown at a trial of an offense under this section that the
 2-7     defendant has previously been convicted under this section, the
 2-8     offense is a felony of the third degree.  Each day of violation
 2-9     constitutes a separate offense.]
2-10           SECTION 3.  Sections 19 and 19a, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
2-11     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
2-12     Civil Statutes), are repealed.
2-13           SECTION 4.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
2-14     section, the remedy for an offense or violation under Section
2-15     5a(c), 19, or 19a, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st Legislature,
2-16     Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas  Civil
2-17     Statutes),  regardless of whether the offense or violation is
2-18     committed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, is
2-19     the remedy provided by Section 5a(c), Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
2-20     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
2-21     Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act.
2-22           (b)  This section does not apply to the punishment of a
2-23     defendant finally convicted before the effective date of this Act.
2-24     The punishment for a final conviction that exists on the effective
2-25     date of this Act is unaffected by this Act.
2-26           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-27           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.