1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 1133
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
1-4 April 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the inclusion of nursing in the definition of
1-9 professional services for purposes of the Professional Services
1-10 Procurement Act.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subdivision (2), Section 2254.002, Government
1-13 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (2) "Professional services" means services:
1-15 (A) within the scope of the practice, as defined
1-16 by state law, of:
1-17 (i) accounting;
1-18 (ii) architecture;
1-19 (iii) land surveying;
1-20 (iv) medicine;
1-21 (v) optometry;
1-22 (vi) professional engineering; [or]
1-23 (vii) real estate appraising; or
1-24 (viii) professional nursing; or
1-25 (B) provided in connection with the professional
1-26 employment or practice of a person who is licensed as:
1-27 (i) a certified public accountant;
1-28 (ii) an architect;
1-29 (iii) a land surveyor;
1-30 (iv) a physician, including a surgeon;
1-31 (v) an optometrist;
1-32 (vi) a professional engineer; [or]
1-33 (vii) a state certified or state licensed
1-34 real estate appraiser; or
1-35 (viii) a registered nurse.
1-36 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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