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 and address of each place of business at which
1-10 the person engages in the practice of chiropractic [preserve a
1-11 record of its proceedings in a book kept for that purpose, showing
1-12 name, age, place, and duration of residence of each applicant, the
1-13 time spent in the study of chiropractic in respective chiropractic
1-14 schools, together with such other information as the Board may
1-15 desire to record. Said register shall also show whether applicants
1-16 were rejected or licensed and shall be prima-facie evidence of all
1-17 matters contained therein. The secretary of the Board shall on May
1-18 1st of each year transmit an official copy of said register to the
1-19 Secretary of State for permanent record, a certified copy of which,
1-20 with hand and seal of the secretary of said Board or the hand of
1-21 the Secretary of State under the state seal, shall be admitted in
1-22 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. Section 19, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
2-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
2-12 Civil Statutes), is repealed.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 5a(c)
2-15 or 19, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st Legislature, Regular Session,
2-16 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), regardless
2-17 of whether the offense or violation is committed before, on, or
2-18 after the effective date of this Act, is the remedy provided by
2-19 Section 5a(c), Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st Legislature, Regular
2-20 Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as
2-21 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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2175 was passed by the House on May
4, 1999, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2175 on May 26, 1999, and requested
the appointment of a conference committee to consider the
differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the
conference committee report on H.B. No. 2175 on May 29, 1999, by a
non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2175 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; at the request of
the House, the Senate appointed a conference committee to consider
the differences between the two houses; and that the Senate adopted
the conference committee report on H.B. No. 2175 on May 30, 1999,
by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor