Amend HB 2681, as follows: Strike all below the enacting clause and substitute the following: SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 502.2731 to read as follows: Sec. 502.2731. KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL LICENSE PLATES. (a) The department shall issue specially designed "Keep Texas Beautiful" license plates for passenger cars and light commercial motor vehicles having a manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one ton or less. The license plates must include the words "Keep Texas Beautiful." (b) The department shall design the license plate in consultation with Keep Texas Beautiful, Inc. (c) The department shall issue license plates under this section to a person who: (1) applies to the county assessor-collector of the county in which the person resides on a form provided by the department; and (2) pays an annual fee of $50, in addition to the fee prescribed by Section 502.161 or Section 502.162 and, if personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by Section 502.251. (d) The department shall deposit fees collected under this section in the state treasury to the credit of the state highway fund. (e) Forty-five dollars of each fee collected under Subsection (c)(2) may be used by the department only for the purposes of supporting the department's litter prevention and community beautification programs. The remainder of each fee collected may be used by the department only to defray the cost of administering this section. (f) If license plates issued under this section are lost, stolen, or mutilated, the owner of the vehicle for which the license plates were issued may obtain replacement license plates from the department by paying a replacement fee of $5. If the owner of a vehicle for which license plates were issued under this section disposes of the vehicle during a registration year, the person shall return the special license plates to the department. (g) There is no limit to the number of passenger cars and light commercial motor vehicles for which the person may apply for the issuance of license plates under this section. SECTION 2. Section 502.252, Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 502.252. CERTAIN SPECIALIZED PLATES AVAILABLE PERSONALIZED. A person applying for license plates under Section 502.258, 502.259, 502.260, 502.261, 502.262, 502.263, 502.264, 502.265, 502.269, 502.270, 502.271, 502.272, 502.273, 502.2731, or 502.274 may: (1) have a license plate number assigned by the department; or (2) apply for personalized prestige license plates under Section 502.251. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.