AN ACT
 1-1     relating to judicial review of the secretary of state's refusal to
 1-2     register or renew a trademark or service mark.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 16.24, Business &
 1-5     Commerce Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  If the secretary of state takes final [Final] action
 1-7     refusing to register a mark under Section 16.109 or to renew the
 1-8     registration of a mark under Section 16.14, the applicant or
 1-9     registrant may file [taken or a final decision made by the
1-10     secretary of state under this chapter may be reviewed by a] suit
1-11     for review of the secretary of state's decision [filed] in one of
1-12     the Travis County district courts.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 571 passed the Senate on
         March 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 571 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor