By: Rosson S.B. No. 1390
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to motorcycle license fees and the motorcycle education
1-2 fund.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 19, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-5 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 821 and 842,
1-7 Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to
1-8 read as follows:
1-9 (a) The fees as provided for in this Act shall be as
1-10 follows:
1-11 (1) All Classes of Licenses--originals and renewals
1-12 issued for four (4) years, Sixteen Dollars ($16.00), except as
1-13 provided for in Subdivision (2) of this subsection;
1-14 (2) Class M License--originals issued for four (4)
1-15 years, Twenty-one Dollars ($21.00) <Sixteen Dollars ($16.00)>;
1-16 renewals issued for four (4) years, Twenty-one Dollars ($21.00);
1-17 (3) Provisional and Instruction (Learner's)
1-18 License--issued for one (1) year or less, Five Dollars ($5.00);
1-19 (4) Occupational License--Ten Dollars ($10.00) for one
1-20 (1) year.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 19, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-22 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-23 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-1 (c) Five Dollars ($5.00) of each Class M license renewal fee
2-2 and One Dollar ($1.00) of each Class M original license fee shall
2-3 be deposited in the motorcycle education fund in the state
2-4 treasury.
2-5 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 4, Article 6701c-4,
2-6 Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
2-7 (a) The motorcycle education fund is established in the
2-8 state treasury. The fund is exempt from Sections 403.094 and
2-9 403.095, Government Code. Except as provided by Subsection (c) of
2-10 this section, money in the fund may be expended only to defray the
2-11 costs of administering the motorcycle operator training and safety
2-12 program.
2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.