By Ellis S.B. No. 1709
76R6729 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to fees paid by school districts for professional
1-3 services.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 44.031(f), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) This section does not apply to fees received for
1-8 professional services rendered, including [architect's fees,
1-9 attorney's fees, and] fees for the services of an architect,
1-10 attorney, computer programmer, systems analyst, financial
1-11 consultant, or fiscal agent [agents]. Fees for those services
1-12 shall be determined in the manner provided by Section 2254.003 or
1-13 2254.004, Government Code, as appropriate.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 44.031(f), Education Code, as amended by
1-15 this Act, applies only to fees a school district pays for
1-16 professional services under a contract entered into on or after the
1-17 effective date of this Act. Fees a school district pays for
1-18 professional services under a contract entered into before the
1-19 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
1-20 date the contract was entered into, and that law is continued in
1-21 effect for that purpose.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.