By Shapiro S.B. No. 1663 75R8750 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the business of selling checks. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, Article 489d, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-5 Statutes, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 3. No person, except those specified in Section 4 shall 1-7 engage in the business of selling checks, as a service or for a fee 1-8 or other consideration, or maintain, utilize, or otherwise control 1-9 an account in this state for the purpose of engaging in the 1-10 business of selling checks, without having first obtained a license 1-11 hereunder. 1-12 SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause, 1-13 or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such 1-14 invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and 1-15 it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to 1-16 have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of 1-17 the fact that any other section, sentence, or part may be declared 1-18 invalid. 1-19 SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on 1-20 September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-22 and the 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, 2-2 and it is so enacted.