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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