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                                                                  H.B. No. 2158




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.                           




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2158 was passed by the House on May 9, 
2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 2158 was passed by the Senate on May 
25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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                 Governor