1-1 By: Cain (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 698 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 10, 1993; 1-3 March 11, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; March 24, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 24, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Harris of Dallas x 1-9 Rosson x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Leedom x 1-13 Lucio x 1-14 Luna x 1-15 Nelson x 1-16 Patterson x 1-17 Shelley x 1-18 Sibley x 1-19 West x 1-20 Whitmire x 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to the procedures applicable to the registration of motor 1-24 vehicles. 1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-26 SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 2a, Chapter 88, General 1-27 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 1-28 (Article 6675a-2a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 1-29 read as follows: 1-30 (g) The county, the county tax collector, a deputy county 1-31 tax collector, and any person acting for or on behalf of a county 1-32 or county tax collector, or a person acting on behalf of the owner 1-33 for purposes of obtaining registration to the vehicle are not 1-34 liable to any person for registering a motor vehicle under this 1-35 section. 1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-42 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-43 * * * * * 1-44 Austin, 1-45 Texas 1-46 March 24, 1993 1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-48 President of the Senate 1-49 Sir: 1-50 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. 1-51 No. 698, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-52 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-53 pass and be printed. 1-54 Rosson, 1-55 Vice-Chairman 1-56 * * * * * 1-57 WITNESSES 1-58 FOR AGAINST ON 1-59 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-60 Name: Tom Blanton x 1-61 Representing: Texas Automobile Dealers 1-62 Assn 1-63 City: Austin 1-64 -------------------------------------------------------------------