Amend SB 697 on third reading as follows:
      (1)  Strike Amendment No. 4 by Callegari (second reading).
      (2)  In the section of the bill amending Section 20, The
Texas Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), in the introductory language for that section (house
committee printing page 3, line 12), strike "Subsection (h)" and
substitute "Subsections (h) and (i)".
      (3)  After the section of the bill adding proposed Section
20(h), The Texas Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes) (house committee printing page 4, after line
9), insert the following:
      (i)  The board shall develop written guidelines, in
consultation with representatives of public and private
institutions of higher education, consulting engineers, private
industry, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, that
describe a distinction between engineering research conducted by
faculty at a public or private institution of higher education and
other activities conducted by those faculty that constitute
engineering consulting or the offering of engineering services to
the public.  The guidelines developed under this subsection do not
affect or apply to research or consulting performed by private
industry.
      (4)  Renumber the sections of the bill appropriately.