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.)Click here to see the committee vote     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.     * * * * *