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.