H.B. No. 871
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to motor vehicle registrations by limited service deputy
1-3 tax assessor-collectors.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4.202(f), County Road and Bridge Act
1-6 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 (f) An individual or a business entity that is deputized by
1-9 a county tax assessor-collector as a limited service deputy under
1-10 Subsection (e) of this section may only accept registration renewal
1-11 cards provided by the State Department of Highways and Public
1-12 Transportation, and the deputy may not prepare or accept an
1-13 application for title transfer. The commissioners court may permit
1-14 the limited service deputy to charge and retain an additional fee
1-15 for issuing a license receipt not to exceed $1 for each license
1-16 receipt the deputy issues. <The limited service deputy may not
1-17 collect any additional fee for issuing license receipts.> The tax
1-18 assessor-collector may pay the limited service deputy an amount not
1-19 to exceed the fee amount that the tax assessor-collector could
1-20 collect under Subsection (a) of this section for each receipt
1-21 issued. An individual or business entity is eligible to be
1-22 deputized on a limited service basis if the individual or an
1-23 employee of the business entity:
1-24 (1) is trained in the issuance process by the county
2-1 tax assessor-collector; and
2-2 (2) posts a bond payable to the county tax
2-3 assessor-collector in an amount determined by the tax
2-4 assessor-collector and conditioned on the individual's or business
2-5 entity's proper accounting and remittance of all fees collected by
2-6 the individual or business entity.
2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.