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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor