Bill Text: TX SB779 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the selection of forensic science professional services by governmental entities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB779 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB779-Introduced.html
87R8652 YDB-F | ||
By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 779 |
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relating to the selection of forensic science professional services | ||
by governmental entities. | ||
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; [ |
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(ix) professional nursing; or | ||
(x) forensic science; | ||
(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; [ |
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(ix) a registered nurse; or | ||
(x) a forensic analyst or forensic science | ||
expert; 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |