Bill Text: TX HB1020 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to volunteer practice by an inactive member of the State Bar of Texas.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1020 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1020-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Smithee, Farrar (Senate Sponsor - Rodríguez) H.B. No. 1020
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2017;
April 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 1, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 1, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to volunteer practice by an inactive member of the State
Bar of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 81.053(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) An inactive member may not practice law in this state,
except as provided by rule promulgated by the supreme court for
volunteer practice, and may not hold an office in the state bar[,]
or vote in any election conducted by the state bar.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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