Amend HB 2891 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill:

SECTION ____.  Section 4.156, Business Organizations Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 4.156.  FILING FEES: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS. For a filing by or for a professional association, the secretary of state shall impose the following fees:

(1)  for filing a certificate of formation or an application for registration as a foreign professional association, $750; and

(2)  [for filing an annual statement, $35; and

[(3)]  for filing any other instrument, the fee provided for the filing of a similar instrument under Section 4.152.

(2)  Strike page 1, line 12, through page 2, line 1.

(3)  On page 4, strike lines 8 through 20 and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS:

SECTION ____.  Section 302.012, Business Organizations Code, is repealed.

SECTION ____.  (a) Section 153.301, Business Organizations Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a report required to be filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A report required to be filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the report is due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

(b)  Section 4.156, Business Organizations Code, as amended by this Act, and Section 302.012, Business Organizations Code, as repealed by this Act, apply only to an annual statement required to be filed on or after the effective date of this Act. An annual statement required to be filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the statement is due, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION ____.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2016.

(4)  Renumber the SECTIONS of the bill appropriately.