By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 814 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to public notification of an application for a license for 1-3 a pawnshop in certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 371, Finance Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 371.0571 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 371.0571. APPLICATION NOTICE TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN 1-8 CERTAIN COUNTIES. If an application is for a pawnshop that will be 1-9 located in a county with a population of more than 50,000, the 1-10 commissioner shall give notice of each pawnshop license application 1-11 to: 1-12 (1) the state representative in whose district the 1-13 applicant's business is to be conducted; and 1-14 (2) the state senator in whose district the 1-15 applicant's business is to be conducted. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-17 applies only to an application for a pawnshop license that is filed 1-18 with the consumer credit commissioner on or after that date. An 1-19 application filed before that date is governed by the law in effect 1-20 on the date that the application was filed, and the former law is 1-21 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.