By Dutton H.B. No. 989
75R3836 DWS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to submission of proof of financial responsibility in
1-3 connection with registration of a transferred motor vehicle.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.153(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (i), the [The] owner of
1-8 a motor vehicle, other than a trailer or semitrailer, for which
1-9 evidence of financial responsibility is required by Section 601.051
1-10 or a person who represents the owner for purposes of registering a
1-11 motor vehicle shall submit evidence of financial responsibility
1-12 with the application for registration under Section 502.151. A
1-13 county assessor-collector may not register the motor vehicle unless
1-14 the owner or the owner's representative submits the evidence of
1-15 financial responsibility.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 502.153, Transportation Code, is amended
1-17 by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
1-18 (i) This section does not apply if the person is registering
1-19 the motor vehicle in connection with the transfer of title to the
1-20 motor vehicle.
1-21 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-22 to a registration occurring on or after the effective date of this
1-23 Act. A registration occurring before the effective date of this
1-24 Act is governed by the law in effect when the registration
2-1 occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-2 purpose.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.