76R13973 GJH-F
By Madla S.B. No. 1133
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1133:
By McCall C.S.S.B. No. 1133
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the procurement by a governmental entity of certain
1-3 professional services.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2254.002(2), Government Code, is amended
1-6 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) landscape architecture;
1-13 (iv) land surveying;
1-14 (v) [(iv)] medicine;
1-15 (vi) [(v)] optometry;
1-16 (vii) [(vi)] professional engineering;
1-17 [or]
1-18 (viii) [(vii)] real estate appraising; or
1-19 (ix) professional nursing; or
1-20 (B) provided in connection with the professional
1-21 employment or practice of a person who is licensed or registered
1-22 as:
1-23 (i) a certified public accountant;
1-24 (ii) an architect;
2-1 (iii) a landscape architect;
2-2 (iv) a land surveyor;
2-3 (v) [(iv)] a physician, including a
2-4 surgeon;
2-5 (vi) [(v)] an optometrist;
2-6 (vii) [(vi)] a professional engineer; [or]
2-7 (viii) [(vii)] a state certified or state
2-8 licensed real estate appraiser; or
2-9 (ix) a registered nurse.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.