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.