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.