1-1 By: Rosson S.B. No. 1390
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 25, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Rosson
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1390 as follows:
1-8 (1) Replace lines 15 through 17 of page 1 of the introduced
1-9 bill (committee printing page 1, lines 41-43) with Subdivision (2),
1-10 Subsection (a), Section 19, Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-11 Statutes to read as follows:
1-12 (2) Class M License--for all driver license
1-13 transactions under this Act or the Texas Commercial Driver's
1-14 License Act (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes), involving a Class
1-15 M License, the department shall collect an additional Five Dollars
1-16 ($5.00) which shall be deposited in the motorcycle education fund
1-17 in the state treasury; this fee does not apply to persons applying
1-18 for a duplicate license <originals issued for four (4) years,
1-19 Sixteen Dollars ($16.00); renewals issued for four (4) years,
1-20 Twenty one Dollars ($21.00)>;
1-21 (2) Remove SECTION 2 of introduced version of bill entirely
1-22 and replace with the following:
1-23 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 19, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-24 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-25 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed.
1-26 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-27 AN ACT
1-28 relating to motorcycle license fees and the motorcycle education
1-29 fund.
1-30 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-31 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 19, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-32 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-33 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 821 and 842,
1-34 Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, is amended to
1-35 read as follows:
1-36 (a) The fees as provided for in this Act shall be as
1-37 follows:
1-38 (1) All Classes of Licenses--originals and renewals
1-39 issued for four (4) years, Sixteen Dollars ($16.00), except as
1-40 provided for in Subdivision (2) of this subsection;
1-41 (2) Class M License--originals issued for four (4)
1-42 years, Twenty-one Dollars ($21.00) <Sixteen Dollars ($16.00)>;
1-43 renewals issued for four (4) years, Twenty-one Dollars ($21.00);
1-44 (3) Provisional and Instruction (Learner's)
1-45 License--issued for one (1) year or less, Five Dollars ($5.00);
1-46 (4) Occupational License--Ten Dollars ($10.00) for one
1-47 (1) year.
1-48 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 19, Chapter 173, Acts of
1-49 the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941 (Article 6687b,
1-50 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-51 (c) Five Dollars ($5.00) of each Class M license renewal fee
1-52 and One Dollar ($1.00) of each Class M original license fee shall
1-53 be deposited in the motorcycle education fund in the state
1-54 treasury.
1-55 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 4, Article 6701c-4,
1-56 Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-57 (a) The motorcycle education fund is established in the
1-58 state treasury. The fund is exempt from Sections 403.094 and
1-59 403.095, Government Code. Except as provided by Subsection (c) of
1-60 this section, money in the fund may be expended only to defray the
1-61 costs of administering the motorcycle operator training and safety
1-62 program.
1-63 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-64 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-65 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-66 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-67 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-68 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.
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