HBA-NLM H.B. 2656 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2656
By: Elkins
Land & Resource Management
4/5/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Pawnshops must be licensed under the Finance Code. Some cities have chosen
to classify pawnshops under an industrial classification. H.B. 2656
requires the governing body of a municipality to designate pawnshops  that
have been licensed to transact business by the office of the Consumer
Credit Commissioner as a permitted use in a zoning classification that
permits the operation of a bank, savings and loan association, or credit
union, or an authorized lender licensed under Chapter 342 (Certain Cash
Advance Loans), Finance Code. 
 
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 211.0035(b), Local Government Code, to require
the governing body of a municipality to designate pawnshops, for the
purposes described in this section,  that have been licensed to transact
business by the office of the Consumer Credit Commissioner under Chapter
371 (Pawnshops), Finance Code, rather than under Article 5069-51.01 et
seq., V.T.C.S. (Texas Pawnshop Act), as a permitted use in one or more
zoning classifications and as a permitted use in a zoning classification
that permits the operation of: 

_a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union as defined by
Section 341.001 (Definitions), Finance Code; or 
_an authorized lender licensed under Chapter 342 (Certain Cash Advance
Loans), Finance Code.   

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.