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.