1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 571
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 1999; February 18, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; March 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to judicial review of the secretary of state's refusal to
1-9 register or renew a trademark or service mark.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 16.24, Business &
1-12 Commerce Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) If the secretary of state takes final [Final] action
1-14 refusing to register a mark under Section 16.109 or to renew the
1-15 registration of a mark under Section 16.14, the applicant or
1-16 registrant may file [taken or a final decision made by the
1-17 secretary of state under this chapter may be reviewed by a] suit
1-18 for review of the secretary of state's decision [filed] in one of
1-19 the Travis County district courts.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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