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Comptroller seeks narrower authority to issue criminal citations for unlicensed traders
Summary
Comptroller Brooke Lierman asked the Economic Matters Committee to approve House Bill 577, a bill that would limit the people the Comptroller's Field Enforcement Bureau can criminally cite for operating without required trader or other specified business licenses.
Comptroller Brooke Lierman asked the Economic Matters Committee to give House Bill 577 a favorable report, saying the bill narrows the list of people her office may criminally cite for operating businesses without required licenses.
"I'm asking you to give my agency less authority," Lierman told the committee, arguing that under current law Comptroller field agents may issue criminal citations to "any person working at that store," including employees with no authority over licensing. She said that can lead to criminal citations against…
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