By Oakley H.B. No. 1563
75R5549 BEM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to continuing education for auctioneers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3B, Chapter 320, Acts of the 64th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 8700, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3B. CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS. (a) A person
1-8 licensed under this Act must, in order to renew the license,
1-9 complete not fewer than 14 hours of continuing education in
1-10 programs approved by the commission in the field of auctioneering
1-11 in each two-year period that the person is licensed under this Act.
1-12 (b) A person applying to renew an auctioneer or associate
1-13 auctioneer license must provide to the commission proof that the
1-14 person has completed the continuing education requirements of this
1-15 section.
1-16 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules under this section
1-17 for the approval of continuing education programs [The commissioner
1-18 may recognize, prepare, or administer continuing education programs
1-19 for licensees. Participation in the programs is voluntary].
1-20 SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this
1-21 Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-22 (b) A person applying to renew an auctioneer or associate
1-23 auctioneer license is not required to comply with Section 3B(b),
1-24 Chapter 320, Acts of the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975
2-1 (Article 8700, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by this
2-2 Act, until September 1, 1999.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.