By F. Brown                                            H.B. No. 325
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to continuing education for auctioneers.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 3B Chapter 320, Acts of the 64th
 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 8700, Vernon's Texas
 1-6     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 3B.  Continuing education programs.  (a) A person
 1-8     licensed under this Act must, in order to renew the license,
 1-9     complete not fewer than 7 hours of continuing education in programs
1-10     approved by the commission in the field of auctioneering in each
1-11     one year period that the person is licensed under this Act.
1-12           (b)  A person applying to renew a auctioneer or associate
1-13     auctioneer license must provide to the commission proof that the
1-14     person has completed the continuing education requirement of this
1-15     section.
1-16           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules under this section
1-17     for approval of continuing education programs.  [The commissioner
1-18     may recognize, prepare, or administer continuing education programs
1-19     for licensees.  Participation in the programs is voluntary.]
1-20           SECTION 2.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this
1-21     Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           (b)  A person applying to renew an auctioneer or associate
 2-2     auctioneer license is not required to comply with Section 3B(b),
 2-3     Chapter 320, Acts of the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975
 2-4     (Article 8700, Vernon's Texas Civil Statues), as added by this Act,
 2-5     until September 1, 2000.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition the calendars in both houses create an emergency
 2-8     and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
 2-9     requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
2-10     suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.