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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