By Yarbrough H.B. No. 2968 75R9113 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to special license plates for the Houston Livestock Show 1-3 and Rodeo. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 502.292 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 502.292. HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO LICENSE 1-8 PLATES. (a) The department shall issue specially designed Houston 1-9 Livestock Show and Rodeo license plates for passenger cars and 1-10 light trucks. 1-11 (b) The license plates must include the words "Houston 1-12 Livestock Show and Rodeo" and be of a color, quality, and design 1-13 approved by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. 1-14 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this 1-15 section to a person who: 1-16 (1) applies to the county assessor-collector of the 1-17 county in which the person resides on a form provided by the 1-18 department; and 1-19 (2) pays an annual fee of $25, in addition to the fee 1-20 prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige 1-21 license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by 1-22 Section 502.251. 1-23 (d) The department shall deposit $20 of each fee collected 1-24 under this section to the credit of the Houston Livestock Show and 2-1 Rodeo scholarship account in the state treasury. Money in the 2-2 account may be used only by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating 2-3 Board in making grants to benefit the Houston Livestock Show and 2-4 Rodeo. 2-5 (e) The remainder of each fee collected under this section, 2-6 after deposit as provided by Subsection (d), may be used only to 2-7 defray the cost of administering this section. 2-8 (f) If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section 2-9 disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner 2-10 shall return the special license plates to the department. 2-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.