By:  Hirschi                                           H.B. No. 341
       73R189 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the qualifications for a license to engage in business
    1-3  regarding a coin-operated music, skill, or pleasure machine.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 19(1), Article 8817, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (1)  The Comptroller may not issue or renew a general
    1-8  business or import license for a business under this Article if the
    1-9  Comptroller finds that the applicant or licensee:
   1-10              (a)  is an individual who:
   1-11                    (i)  has been convicted of a felony, criminal
   1-12  fraud, gambling or a gambling-related offense, or a misdemeanor
   1-13  involving moral turpitude, if less than 10 years has elapsed since
   1-14  the termination of the sentence, parole, mandatory supervision, or
   1-15  probation served for the offense;
   1-16                    (ii)  is or has been a professional gambler;
   1-17                    (iii)  is married to or related in the first
   1-18  degree of affinity or consanguinity to an individual described in
   1-19  Subsection (1)(a)(i) or (ii) of this section; or
   1-20                    (iv)  is married to or related in the first
   1-21  degree of affinity or consanguinity to an individual who is
   1-22  indebted to the State for any fees, costs, penalties, or delinquent
   1-23  taxes; or
   1-24              (b)  is not an individual and an individual described
    2-1  in Subdivision (a) of this subsection:
    2-2                    (i)  is an officer or director of the applicant;
    2-3                    (ii)  holds more than 10 percent of the stock in
    2-4  the applicant;
    2-5                    (iii)  holds an equitable interest greater than
    2-6  10 percent in the applicant;
    2-7                    (iv)  is a creditor of the applicant who holds
    2-8  more than 10 percent of the applicant's outstanding debt;
    2-9                    (v)  shares, or will share, in the profits of the
   2-10  applicant, other than by stock dividends; or
   2-11                    (vi)  participates in managing the affairs of the
   2-12  applicant.
   2-13              <(a)  has been finally convicted of a felony in a court
   2-14  of competent jurisdiction during the five years preceding the
   2-15  filing of the application; or>
   2-16              <(b)  has been on probation or parole as a result of a
   2-17  felony conviction during the two years preceding the filing of the
   2-18  application.>
   2-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.