Amend SB 597 in SECTION 1 of the bill by striking proposed 
Section 953.053(b), Occupations Code (house committee printing, 
page 5, line 25, through page 6, line 3), and substituting the 
following:
	(b)  In addition to the annual registration fee required by 
Subsection (a), the executive director shall annually collect from 
each company a fee equal to the difference between an amount equal 
to 1.7 percent of the amount a company collects for legal service 
contracts sold by the company in this state in the current year and 
the amount the company paid to the state in franchise taxes in the 
same year.  The executive director shall establish a schedule and 
procedure for collecting this fee.