1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)               H.B. No. 2175
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
 1-4     Services; May 13, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Nelson
 1-7           Amend HB 2175 as follows:
 1-8           (1)  On page 1, line 21, strike "residence address,".
 1-9           (2)  On page 1, line 46, strike "Sections 19 and 19a" and
1-10     substitute "Section 19".
1-11           (3)  On page 1, line 48, strike "are" and substitute "is".
1-12                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-13                                   AN ACT
1-14     relating to the regulation of the practice of chiropractic.
1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16           SECTION 1.  Section 5, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
1-17     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
1-18     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-19           Sec. 5.  The Board shall maintain records regarding each
1-20     person licensed or registered with the Board.  The records must
1-21     include that name, residence address, and address of each place of
1-22     business at which the person engages in the practice of
1-23     chiropractic [preserve a record of its proceedings in a book kept
1-24     for that purpose, showing name, age, place, and duration of
1-25     residence of each applicant, the time spent in the study of
1-26     chiropractic in respective chiropractic schools, together with such
1-27     other information as the Board may desire to record.  Said register
1-28     shall also show whether applicants were rejected or licensed and
1-29     shall be prima-facie evidence of all matters contained therein.
1-30     The secretary of the Board shall on May 1st of each year transmit
1-31     an official copy of said register to the Secretary of State for
1-32     permanent record, a certified copy of which, with hand and seal of
1-33     the secretary of said Board or the hand of the Secretary of State
1-34     under the state seal, shall be admitted in evidence in all courts].
1-35           SECTION 2.  Section 5a(c), Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
1-36     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
1-37     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-38           (c)  The Board shall bring an action for injunctive
1-39     proceedings or other civil proceedings as necessary to enforce this
1-40     Act. [A person who violates this section commits an offense.  An
1-41     offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.  If it is
1-42     shown at a trial of an offense under this section that the
1-43     defendant has previously been convicted under this section, the
1-44     offense is a felony of the third degree.  Each day of violation
1-45     constitutes a separate offense.]
1-46           SECTION 3.  Sections 19 and 19a, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
1-47     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
1-48     Civil Statutes), are repealed.
1-49           SECTION 4.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-50     section, the remedy for an offense or violation under Section
1-51     5a(c), 19, or 19a, Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st Legislature,
1-52     Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas  Civil
1-53     Statutes),  regardless of whether the offense or violation is
1-54     committed before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, is
1-55     the remedy provided by Section 5a(c), Chapter 94, Acts of the 51st
1-56     Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 4512b, Vernon's Texas
1-57     Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act.
1-58           (b)  This section does not apply to the punishment of a
1-59     defendant finally convicted before the effective date of this Act.
1-60     The punishment for a final conviction that exists on the effective
1-61     date of this Act is unaffected by this Act.
1-62           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-63           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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