By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1245
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a person's eligibility for an auctioneer's license.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 3, Chapter 320, Acts of
 1-4     the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 8700, Vernon's
 1-5     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A person is eligible for an auctioneer's license if the
 1-7     person [he]:
 1-8                 (1)  is at least 18 years of age;
 1-9                 (2)  has obtained a high school diploma or equivalency
1-10     certificate;
1-11                 (3)  is a citizen of the United States or a legal
1-12     alien;
1-13                 (4)  has not, in the five years preceding the date of
1-14     the license application, been finally convicted of a felony or a
1-15     misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;
1-16                 (5)  has completed at least 80 hours of education in
1-17     the field of auctioneering in a program approved by the department;
1-18     and
1-19                 (6) [(3)]  either:
1-20                       (A) [(i)]  passes a written or oral examination
1-21     demonstrating the person's [his] knowledge of the auction business
1-22     and of the laws of this state pertaining to the auction business;
1-23     or
1-24                       (B) [(ii)]  shows proof of the person's [his]
 2-1     employment by a licensed auctioneer for a period of two years [one
 2-2     year] during which the applicant participated in at least ten
 2-3     [five] auctions.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.