1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1171
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 16, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 5, 1993,
1-4 reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; May 5, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lucio
1-22 Amend S.B. No. 1171 on Page 1, Line 51, by changing "$10." to
1-23 "Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)".
1-24 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-25 AN ACT
1-26 relating to the issuance of special license plates to justices of
1-27 the peace and municipal court judges.
1-28 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-29 SECTION 1. Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
1-30 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et seq.,
1-31 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 5m to
1-32 read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 5m. (a) The department shall design and provide for
1-34 the issuance of special license plates for passenger cars and light
1-35 commercial motor vehicles that have a manufacturer's rated carrying
1-36 capacity of one ton or less and that are owned by persons who are
1-37 justices of the peace or judges of municipal courts of this state.
1-38 (b) License plates issued to justices of the peace and
1-39 judges of municipal courts under this section shall bear the words
1-40 "Texas Magistrate."
1-41 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this
1-42 section to a person who:
1-43 (1) applies to the county tax collector in the county
1-44 of the person's residence on a form prescribed by the department;
1-45 (2) pays the fee prescribed by Subsection (d) of this
1-46 section; and
1-47 (3) submits with the application proof that the person
1-48 is a justice of the peace or judge of a municipal court of this
1-49 state.
1-50 (d) The fee for issuance of special license plates under
1-51 this section is $10.
1-52 (e) Registration under this section is valid for one year
1-53 and expires in the same manner as do regular motor vehicle
1-54 registrations, except as provided by Subsection (f) of this
1-55 section.
1-56 (f) Registration under this section expires when the owner
1-57 of the vehicle for which the special plates were issued ceases to
1-58 be a justice of the peace or judge of a municipal court. The
1-59 justice or judge is not required to return the special license
1-60 plates to the department.
1-61 (g) A vehicle for which special license plates are issued
1-62 under this section is not exempt from the motor vehicle
1-63 registration fee imposed by Section 5 of this Act or any additional
1-64 county fee imposed under Section 9a of this Act.
1-65 (h) The county tax collector shall retain $2 of each fee
1-66 collected under this section and deposit the amount retained in the
1-67 general fund of the county. The county tax collector shall remit
1-68 the remainder of each fee to the department at the times and in the
2-1 manner provided by Section 10 of this Act.
2-2 (i) The department shall deposit in the state treasury to
2-3 the credit of the state highway fund amounts remitted to the
2-4 department under Subsection (h) of this section.
2-5 (j) A person may be issued only one set of special license
2-6 plates under this section. If the owner of a vehicle for which
2-7 plates are issued under this section disposes of the vehicle during
2-8 a registration year, the person shall return the special plates to
2-9 the department, and at that time may apply for issuance of those
2-10 plates to another vehicle.
2-11 (k) If license plates issued under this section are lost,
2-12 stolen, or mutilated, the owner of the vehicle for which the plates
2-13 were issued may obtain replacement plates from the department by
2-14 paying a replacement fee of $5 in addition to the fee required by
2-15 Section 13a of this Act.
2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-22 * * * * *
2-23 Austin,
2-24 Texas
2-25 May 5, 1993
2-26 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-27 President of the Senate
2-28 Sir:
2-29 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-30 1171, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-31 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-32 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-33 Harris of
2-34 Dallas, Chairman
2-35 * * * * *
2-36 WITNESSES
2-37 No Witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1171.