73R4329 JD-D
          By Horn                                                H.B. No. 871
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.