83R2852 YDB-D
By: Uresti S.B. No. 363
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibited exemptions from state bar examination
requirements for attorneys who hold law licenses issued by certain
other states.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 82.036, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 82.036. FOREIGN ATTORNEYS; RECIPROCITY. (a) The
supreme court shall make such rules and regulations as to admitting
attorneys from other jurisdictions to practice law in this state as
it shall deem proper and just. All such attorneys shall be required
to furnish satisfactory proof as to good moral character.
(b) The rules adopted under this section may not exempt an
attorney licensed to practice law in another state from the
requirement of successfully completing this state's bar
examination unless the other state exempts attorneys licensed to
practice law in this state from the requirement of successfully
completing the other state's bar examination.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2013, the Texas
Supreme Court shall adopt the rules necessary to implement Section
82.036, Government Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) Section 82.036, Government Code, as amended by this Act,
applies only to a person who files an application for a license to
practice law with the Board of Law Examiners on or after December 1,
2013.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.