1-1 By: Horn (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 871
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 22, 1993;
1-3 March 23, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 22, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 22, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to motor vehicle registrations by limited service deputy
1-23 tax assessor-collectors.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 4.202(f), County Road and Bridge Act
1-26 (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-27 as follows:
1-28 (f) An individual or a business entity that is deputized by
1-29 a county tax assessor-collector as a limited service deputy under
1-30 Subsection (e) of this section may only accept registration renewal
1-31 cards provided by the State Department of Highways and Public
1-32 Transportation, and the deputy may not prepare or accept an
1-33 application for title transfer. The commissioners court may permit
1-34 the limited service deputy to charge and retain an additional fee
1-35 for issuing a license receipt not to exceed $1 for each license
1-36 receipt the deputy issues. <The limited service deputy may not
1-37 collect any additional fee for issuing license receipts.> The tax
1-38 assessor-collector may pay the limited service deputy an amount not
1-39 to exceed the fee amount that the tax assessor-collector could
1-40 collect under Subsection (a) of this section for each receipt
1-41 issued. An individual or business entity is eligible to be
1-42 deputized on a limited service basis if the individual or an
1-43 employee of the business entity:
1-44 (1) is trained in the issuance process by the county
1-45 tax assessor-collector; and
1-46 (2) posts a bond payable to the county tax
1-47 assessor-collector in an amount determined by the tax
1-48 assessor-collector and conditioned on the individual's or business
1-49 entity's proper accounting and remittance of all fees collected by
1-50 the individual or business entity.
1-51 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-56 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-57 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 April 22, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-66 referred H.B. No. 871, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-67 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-68 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-1 Armbrister,
2-2 Chairman
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 871.