By McCall                                             H.B. No. 2940

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to dealing in computer equipment by a secondhand dealer.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 1(1), Chapter 919, Acts of the 68th

 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1983 (Article 9024, Vernon's Texas

 1-6     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

 1-7                 (1)  "Business machine" includes a typewriter, adding

 1-8     machine, check-writing device, cash register, calculator, [or]

 1-9     addressing machine, [or] letter-sorting or folding device, computer

1-10     or a peripheral device to a computer, or an item of recording,

1-11     copying, or accounting equipment.  The term does not include office

1-12     furniture or fixtures.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to

1-14     a computer or peripheral device received by a secondhand dealer on

1-15     or after the effective date of this Act.  A computer or peripheral

1-16     device received before the effective date of this Act is governed

1-17     by the law in effect when the computer or device was received, and

1-18     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.