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. Section 4, Chapter 919, Acts of the 68th
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1983 (Article 9024, Vernon's Texas
1-15 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-16 follows:
1-17 (c) This Act does not apply to a person whose primary
1-18 business includes the manufacture, sale, or service of computers or
1-19 devices peripheral to computers.
1-20 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-21 a computer or peripheral device received by a secondhand dealer on
1-22 or after the effective date of this Act. A computer or peripheral
1-23 device received before the effective date of this Act is governed
1-24 by the law in effect when the computer or device was received, and
2-1 that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-2 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-3 SECTION 5. 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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2940 was passed by the House on May
2, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2940 on May 25, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2940 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 23, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor