By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1133
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the inclusion of nursing in the definition of
 1-2     professional services for purposes of the Professional Services
 1-3     Procurement Act.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Section 2254.002, Government
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (2)  "Professional services" means services:
 1-8                       (A)  within the scope of the practice, as defined
 1-9     by state law, of:
1-10                             (i)  accounting;
1-11                             (ii)  architecture;
1-12                             (iii)  land surveying;
1-13                             (iv)  medicine;
1-14                             (v)  optometry;
1-15                             (vi)  professional engineering; [or]
1-16                             (vii)  real estate appraising; or
1-17                             (viii)  professional nursing; or
1-18                       (B)  provided in connection with the professional
1-19     employment or practice of a person who is licensed as:
1-20                             (i)  a certified public accountant;
1-21                             (ii)  an architect;
1-22                             (iii)  a land surveyor;
1-23                             (iv)  a physician, including a surgeon;
1-24                             (v)  an optometrist;
 2-1                             (vi)  a professional engineer; [or]
 2-2                             (vii)  a state certified or state licensed
 2-3     real estate appraiser; or
 2-4                             (viii)  a registered nurse.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.