By Cuellar of Hidalgo                                  H.B. No. 106
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 106:
          By Munoz                                           C.S.H.B. No. 106
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of a sticker showing the license plate
    1-3  letters and numbers of a motor vehicle.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
    1-6  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et seq.,
    1-7  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 13-3/4
    1-8  to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 13-3/4.  (a)  The Department shall issue a sticker on
   1-10  initial registration of each motor vehicle in this State and on any
   1-11  subsequent registration in which the vehicle's license plate
   1-12  letters or numbers are changed.  The sticker shall display the
   1-13  license plate letters and numbers assigned to the vehicle.
   1-14        (b)  The owner of the motor vehicle shall affix the sticker
   1-15  issued under subsection (a) of this section to a window of the
   1-16  vehicle in the manner prescribed by the Department.
   1-17        (c)  Any person issued a sticker under this section commits
   1-18  an offense if the person operates a motor vehicle on a public
   1-19  highway without displaying the sticker as required by this section.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Section 13a, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of
   1-21  the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et
   1-22  seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
   1-23  follows:
   1-24        (a)  The owner of a registered motor vehicle may obtain from
    2-1  the Department through the County Tax Collector replacement number
    2-2  plates for such vehicle by filing with said collector a statement
    2-3  showing that said number plate or plates have been lost, stolen or
    2-4  mutilated, and by paying a fee of five dollars for each set of
    2-5  plates issued.  The County Tax Assessor-Collector shall retain as
    2-6  commission one-half (1/2) of this fee collected for replacement
    2-7  number plates and the other one-half (1/2) of such fee shall be
    2-8  reported to and remitted to the State Department of Highways and
    2-9  Public Transportation on Monday of each week as other registration
   2-10  fees are now required to be reported and remitted.
   2-11        (b)  The owner of a registered motor vehicle for which a
   2-12  sticker has been issued under Section 13-3/4 of this Act may obtain
   2-13  from the Department through the County Tax Collector replacement
   2-14  number plates and sticker for such vehicle by filing with said
   2-15  collector a statement showing that said number plate or plates, or
   2-16  sticker have been lost, stolen or mutilated, and by paying a fee of
   2-17  seven dollars for each set of plates and sticker issued.  The
   2-18  County Tax Assessor-Collector shall retain as commission $2.50 of
   2-19  this fee collected for replacement number plates and sticker and
   2-20  the other $4.50 of such fee shall be reported to and remitted to
   2-21  the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation on
   2-22  Monday of each week as other registration fees are now required to
   2-23  be reported and remitted.
   2-24        (c)  In case one or more plates, or a sticker are left in
   2-25  possession of such owner same shall be returned to the Tax
   2-26  Collector when making a <this> statement under this section.  Said
   2-27  statement shall state that such plate, <or> plates, or sticker have
    3-1  been lost, stolen or mutilated and will not be used on any vehicle
    3-2  owned or operated by the person making this statement.  No Tax
    3-3  Collector shall issue replacement plates or stickers without
    3-4  requiring compliance with the provisions of this Section.
    3-5        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  For
    3-6  license plates manufactured on or after September 1, 1994 the
    3-7  department shall prepare stickers required by this Act for issuance
    3-8  with such plates.
    3-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.