1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1245
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a person's eligibility for an auctioneer's license.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 3, Chapter 320, Acts of
1-11     the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 8700, Vernon's
1-12     Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  A person is eligible for an auctioneer's license if the
1-14     person [he]:
1-15                 (1)  is at least 18 years of age;
1-16                 (2)  has obtained a high school diploma or equivalency
1-17     certificate;
1-18                 (3)  is a citizen of the United States or a legal
1-19     alien;
1-20                 (4)  has not, in the five years preceding the date of
1-21     the license application, been finally convicted of a felony or a
1-22     misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;
1-23                 (5)  has completed at least 80 hours of education in
1-24     the field of auctioneering in a program approved by the department;
1-25     and
1-26                 (6) [(3)]  either:
1-27                       (A) [(i)]  passes a written or oral examination
1-28     demonstrating the person's [his] knowledge of the auction business
1-29     and of the laws of this state pertaining to the auction business;
1-30     or
1-31                       (B) [(ii)]  shows proof of the person's [his]
1-32     employment by a licensed auctioneer for a period of two years [one
1-33     year] during which the applicant participated in at least ten
1-34     [five] auctions.
1-35           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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