AN ACT
1-1 relating to the procurement by a governmental entity of certain
1-2 professional services.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 2254.002, Government
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (2) "Professional services" means services:
1-7 (A) within the scope of the practice, as defined
1-8 by state law, of:
1-9 (i) accounting;
1-10 (ii) architecture;
1-11 (iii) landscape architecture;
1-12 (iv) land surveying;
1-13 (v) [(iv)] medicine;
1-14 (vi) [(v)] optometry;
1-15 (vii) [(vi)] professional engineering;
1-16 [or]
1-17 (viii) [(vii)] real estate appraising; or
1-18 (ix) professional nursing; or
1-19 (B) provided in connection with the professional
1-20 employment or practice of a person who is licensed or registered
1-21 as:
1-22 (i) a certified public accountant;
1-23 (ii) an architect;
1-24 (iii) a landscape architect;
2-1 (iv) a land surveyor;
2-2 (v) [(iv)] a physician, including a
2-3 surgeon;
2-4 (vi) [(v)] an optometrist;
2-5 (vii) [(vi)] a professional engineer; [or]
2-6 (viii) [(vii)] a state certified or state
2-7 licensed real estate appraiser; or
2-8 (ix) a registered nurse.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1133 passed the Senate on
April 15, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1133 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 25, 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