By: Lucio S.B. No. 913
(Naishtat)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the reexamination of an applicant for a professional
counselor license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 503.307, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) An applicant who has failed three [two] successive
examinations may not reapply for another examination before:
(1) the second anniversary of the date of the last
examination taken by the applicant; or
(2) the date the applicant has satisfactorily
completed nine graduate semester hours in the applicant's weakest
portion of the examination.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.