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.