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