75R11685 PB-D By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1833 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1833: By Marchant C.S.H.B. No. 1833 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to public notification of an application for a pawnshop 1-3 license in certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Pawnshop Act (Article 5069-51.01 et 1-6 seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 1-7 4A to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 4A. NOTICE TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS. The commissioner shall 1-9 give notice of each pawnshop license application made for a 1-10 location in a county with a population of 1.5 million or more to: 1-11 (1) the state representative in whose district the 1-12 applicant's business is to be conducted; and 1-13 (2) the state senator in whose district the 1-14 applicant's business is to be conducted. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-16 applies only to an application for a pawnshop license that is filed 1-17 with the consumer credit commissioner on or after that date. An 1-18 application filed before that date is governed by the law in effect 1-19 on the date that the application was filed, and the former law is 1-20 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.