Bill Text: TX HB3451 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the grounds for disciplinary action against the holder of a license issued by the Texas Real Estate Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB3451 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3451-Introduced.html
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By: Sanford | H.B. No. 3451 |
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relating to the grounds for disciplinary action against the holder | ||
of a license issued by the Texas Real Estate Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1101.652(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission may suspend or revoke a license issued | ||
under this chapter or Chapter 1102 or take other disciplinary | ||
action authorized by this chapter or Chapter 1102 if the license | ||
holder: | ||
(1) enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to or is | ||
convicted of an offense under Title 5 or 7, Penal Code, a felony | ||
under any other law, or an [ |
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and the time for appeal has elapsed or the judgment or conviction | ||
has been affirmed on appeal, without regard to an order granting | ||
community supervision that suspends the imposition of the sentence; | ||
(2) procures or attempts to procure a license under | ||
this chapter or Chapter 1102 for the license holder by fraud, | ||
misrepresentation, or deceit or by making a material misstatement | ||
of fact in an application for a license; | ||
(3) fails to honor, within a reasonable time, a check | ||
issued to the commission after the commission has sent by certified | ||
mail a request for payment to the license holder's last known | ||
business address according to commission records; | ||
(4) fails to provide, within a reasonable time, | ||
information requested by the commission that relates to a formal or | ||
informal complaint to the commission that would indicate a | ||
violation of this chapter or Chapter 1102; | ||
(5) fails to surrender to the owner, without just | ||
cause, a document or instrument that is requested by the owner and | ||
that is in the license holder's possession; | ||
(6) fails to notify the commission, not later than the | ||
30th day after the date of a final conviction or the entry of a plea | ||
of guilty or nolo contendere, that the person has been convicted of | ||
or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a felony or a | ||
criminal offense involving fraud; or | ||
(7) disregards or violates this chapter or Chapter | ||
1102. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1101.652(a), Occupations Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to disciplinary action regarding | ||
conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
Conduct that occurs before that date is governed by the law in | ||
effect on the date the conduct occurred, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |