By F. Brown H.B. No. 326
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to education requirements of the Auctioneers Act.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, 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. 3. LICENSE REQUIREMENTS. (a) Except as exempted under
1-8 this Act, no person may act as an auctioneer or associate
1-9 auctioneer in an auction held within this state unless he holds a
1-10 license issued by the commissioner under this Act.
1-11 (b) A person is eligible for an auctioneer's license if he:
1-12 (1) is at least 18 years of age[.] and must have
1-13 obtained a high school diploma or equivalency certificate;
1-14 (2) is a citizen of the United States or a legal
1-15 alien;
1-16 (3) has not been convicted of a felony involving moral
1-17 turpitude during the five years preceding the date of application;
1-18 (4) has completed not less than 80 hours of classroom
1-19 instruction at an auction school having a curriculum approved by
1-20 the department;
1-21 (5) either (i) passes a written or oral examination
2-1 demonstrating his knowledge of the auction business and the laws of
2-2 this state pertaining to the auction business; or (ii) shows proof
2-3 of his employment by a licensed auctioneer for a period of [one
2-4 year] two years during which the applicant has participated in at
2-5 least [five auctions] ten auctions.
2-6 SECTION 2. (A) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this
2-7 Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.