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 -------------------------------------------------------------------