By: Phelan (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2868
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2019;
April 24, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the procurement of interior design services by a
governmental entity.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2254.002(2), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(2) "Professional services" means services:
(A) within the scope of the practice, as defined
by state law, of:
(i) accounting;
(ii) architecture;
(iii) landscape architecture;
(iv) land surveying;
(v) medicine;
(vi) optometry;
(vii) professional engineering;
(viii) real estate appraising; or
(ix) professional nursing; [or]
(B) provided in connection with the professional
employment or practice of a person who is licensed or registered as:
(i) a certified public accountant;
(ii) an architect;
(iii) a landscape architect;
(iv) a land surveyor;
(v) a physician, including a surgeon;
(vi) an optometrist;
(vii) a professional engineer;
(viii) a state certified or state licensed
real estate appraiser; or
(ix) a registered nurse; or
(C) provided by a person lawfully engaged in
interior design, regardless of whether the person is registered as
an interior designer under Chapter 1053, Occupations Code.
SECTION 2. Section 2254.002(2), Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to a contract entered into on or after
October 1, 2019.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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