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Amend CSHB 655 by adding the following SECTIONS to the bill, 
appropriately numbered, and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the 
bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 156.002, Occupations Code, is amended 
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  A retired physician whose only practice is voluntary 
medical care for a disaster relief organization is exempt from the 
registration permit fee requirement.
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by Section 156.002(c), 
Occupations Code, as added by this Act applies only to a 
registration permit fee that becomes due on or after the effective 
date of this Act.  A registration permit fee that becomes due before 
that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the fee became 
due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.