By:  Wilson                                           H.B. No. 1255
       73R5648 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the resale of used textbooks; providing a penalty.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 4, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 4.15 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 4.15.  RESALE OF USED TEXTBOOKS.  (a)  A person commits
    1-7  an offense if the person sells a used textbook at a price that is
    1-8  more than 20 percent higher than the price for which the person
    1-9  purchased the used textbook.
   1-10        (b)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-11        (c)  In this section, "used textbook" means a book that is
   1-12  currently required for a course of study at a postsecondary
   1-13  educational institution and that has previously been purchased by a
   1-14  student.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.