By Leedom                                              S.B. No. 533
       74R4401 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a principal who uses a sales representative.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 35.81(2), Business & Commerce Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (2)  "Principal" means a person who:
    1-7                    (A)  <does not have a permanent or fixed place of
    1-8  business in this state;>
    1-9                    <(B)>  manufactures, produces, imports, or
   1-10  distributes a product for sale <to customers who purchase the
   1-11  product for resale>;
   1-12                    (B) <(C)>  uses a sales representative to solicit
   1-13  orders for the product; and
   1-14                    (C) <(D)>  compensates the sales representative
   1-15  in whole or in part by commission.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.