AN ACT
 1-1     relating to forming a professional association for the practice of
 1-2     dentistry.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (A), Section 2, Professional
 1-5     Association Act (Article 1528f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (A)  Formation.  Any one or more persons duly licensed to
 1-8     practice a profession, including podiatry or dentistry, under the
 1-9     laws of this state may, by complying with this Act, form a
1-10     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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1085 passed the Senate on
         April 15, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1085 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