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79R7997 JMM-F
By: Delisi H.B. No. 2158
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exemption from annual registration fees for a
retired physician who provides volunteer medical services in a
disaster.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. 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 2. The change in law made 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.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.