By: Tallas H.B. No. 135
73R349 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the annual registration of motor vehicles.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3a, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the
1-5 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-3a,
1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3a. The payment of the license fee prescribed herein
1-8 for any vehicle shall become delinquent immediately upon the use of
1-9 said vehicle on any public highway without said fee having been
1-10 paid in accordance with this Act. In the event the payment of any
1-11 such fee has become delinquent on any such vehicle, no license or
1-12 license number plates shall be issued therefor by any County Tax
1-13 Collector unless the owner of said vehicle pay an additional charge
1-14 equal to 10 <twenty (20%)> per cent of the total amount of said
1-15 prescribed fee.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the
1-17 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-4,
1-18 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (c)
1-19 to read as follows:
1-20 (c) The Department shall provide notice to an owner of a
1-21 motor vehicle not later than 30 days before the date of the
1-22 expiration of the previous year's registration. The notice must be
1-23 mailed to the owner's most recent address according to records of
1-24 the Department and must contain information on the renewal of the
2-1 motor vehicle's registration.
2-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-3 SECTION 4. The change in law set out in Section 2 of this
2-4 Act does not apply to notices sent by the department for the
2-5 September 1993 registration period.
2-6 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.