76R11858 WP-D                           
         By Jones of Dallas                                     H.B. No. 814
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 814:
         By Averitt                                         C.S.H.B. No. 814
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to public notification of an application for a pawnshop
 1-3     license.
 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.  The
 1-8     commissioner shall give notice of each pawnshop license application
 1-9     to:
1-10                 (1)  the state representative in whose district the
1-11     applicant's business is to be conducted; and
1-12                 (2)  the state senator in whose district the
1-13     applicant's business is to be conducted.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to an application for a pawnshop license that is filed
1-16     with the consumer credit commissioner on or after that date.  An
1-17     application filed before that date is governed by the law in effect
1-18     on the date that the application was filed, and the former law is
1-19     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.