1-1     By:  McCall (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                 H.B. No. 2940

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 15, 1997,

 1-5     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;

 1-6     May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to dealing in computer equipment by a secondhand dealer.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 1(1), Chapter 919, Acts of the 68th

1-12     Legislature, Regular Session, 1983 (Article 9024, Vernon's Texas

1-13     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-14                 (1)  "Business machine" includes a typewriter, adding

1-15     machine, check-writing device, cash register, calculator, [or]

1-16     addressing machine, [or] letter-sorting or folding device, computer

1-17     or a peripheral device to a computer, or an item of recording,

1-18     copying, or accounting equipment.  The term does not include office

1-19     furniture or fixtures.

1-20           SECTION 2.  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

1-25     that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-26           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-27           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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