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.