By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 3038
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to forming a professional association for the practice of
 1-3     dentistry.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 1528f, Section 2(A), Professional
 1-6     Association Act, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2.  (A)  FORMATION.  Any one or more persons duly
 1-8     licensed to practice a profession, including podiatry or dentistry,
 1-9     under the laws of this state may, by complying with this Act, form
1-10     a professional association, as distinguished from either a
1-11     partnership or a corporation, by associating themselves for the
1-12     purpose of performing professional services and dividing the gains
1-13     therefrom as stated in articles of association or bylaws.
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.