By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1058
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to fees.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section A(4), Article 10.01, Texas Business
    1-4  Corporation Act, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5              (4)  Filing an application of a foreign corporation for
    1-6  a certificate of authority to transact business in this State and
    1-7  issuing such a certificate of authority, Three <Seven> Hundred
    1-8  Fifty Dollars ($350.00) <($750)>.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 361.472(a), Health and Safety Code, is
   1-10  amended to read as follows:
   1-11        Sec. 361.472. WASTE TIRE RECYCLING FEES.  (a)(1)  A wholesale
   1-12  or retail tire dealer who sells or offers to sell new tires not for
   1-13  resale shall collect at the time and place of sale a waste tire
   1-14  recycling fee <of $2> for each new <automobile, van, bus, truck,
   1-15  trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor and semitrailer combination, or
   1-16  recreational vehicle> tire sold as follows:
   1-17                    (A)  $2 for each tire with <that has> a rim
   1-18  diameter equal to or greater than 12 inches but less than 19.5 <26>
   1-19  inches; and
   1-20                    (B)  $5 for each tire with a rim diameter equal
   1-21  to or greater than 19.5 inches but less than 25 inches, for each
   1-22  truck tire with a rim diameter of 17 inches, and for any other
   1-23  truck tires as identified by the commission.
    2-1              (2)  The sale of a tire as original equipment in the
    2-2  manufacture of new vehicles is a sale for resale.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  Section 11A(a), The Real Estate License Act
    2-4  (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
    2-5  as follows:
    2-6        (a)  Each of the following fees imposed by or under another
    2-7  section of this Act is increased by $200:
    2-8              (1)  fee for filing an original application for an
    2-9  individual <a> real estate broker license; and
   2-10              (2)  fee for annual renewal of an individual <a> real
   2-11  estate broker license.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.