Bill Text: TX SB787 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a reduced occupational licensing fee for certain former license holders.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB787 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB787-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 787 | |
| (Thompson of Harris) | ||
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| relating to a reduced occupational licensing fee for certain former | ||
| license holders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 57, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 57.003 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 57.003. REDUCED OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING FEE FOR CERTAIN | ||
| FORMER LICENSE HOLDERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a | ||
| state agency that issues a license shall adopt rules requiring the | ||
| agency to charge a reduced license application fee or reactivation | ||
| fee, as applicable, not to exceed one-third of the amount of the | ||
| usual fee, to an applicant who: | ||
| (1) in the two-year period preceding the date of the | ||
| application, became a parent by natural birth or adoption; and | ||
| (2) immediately before the birth or adoption, held an | ||
| active license of the same type for which the person is applying. | ||
| (b) Rules adopted under this section may require an | ||
| applicant to submit to the state agency an attestation or other | ||
| documentation relating to the child's birth or adoption. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, a state agency | ||
| to which Section 57.003, Occupations Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies shall adopt and implement the rules required by that | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. A state agency to which Section 57.003, | ||
| Occupations Code, as added by this Act, applies is required to | ||
| implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
| appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
| legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the state agency may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
