By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 722

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the refusal of registration of motor vehicles by a

 1-2     county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of Transportation

 1-3     under certain conditions.

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 682.010, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 682.010.  Enforcement.  (a)  An order filed under

 1-7     Section 682.009 may be enforced by:

 1-8                 (1)  impounding the vehicle if the offender has

 1-9     committed three or more vehicle parking or stopping offenses in a

1-10     calendar year;

1-11                 (2)  placing a device on the vehicle that prohibits

1-12     movement of the motor vehicle;

1-13                 (3)  imposing an additional fine if the original fine

1-14     is not paid within a specified time; or

1-15                 (4)  denying issuance of a parking permit.

1-16           (b)  An eligible municipality with a population of 450,000 or

1-17     less may enter a contract with a county assessor-collector or the

1-18     Texas Department of Transportation under this chapter whereby the

1-19     assessor-collector or department may refuse to register a motor

1-20     vehicle if the assessor-collector or the department receives under

1-21     a contract information from a municipality under this subsection

1-22     that the owner of the vehicle has three or more unpaid parking

1-23     tickets.

 2-1           (c)  A municipality described by Subsection (b) and to which

 2-2     Subsection (b) applies may contract with a county in which the

 2-3     municipality is located or with the Texas Department of

 2-4     Transportation to provide to the county or the department

 2-5     information necessary to make a determination under Subsection (b).

 2-6           (d)  A municipality described by Subsection (b) that has a

 2-7     contract under Subsection (c) shall notify the county or the Texas

 2-8     Department of Transportation regarding a person for whom the county

 2-9     assessor-collector or the department has refused to register a

2-10     motor vehicle on dismissal of or the payment of parking citations

2-11     on the basis of which registration had been refused.

2-12           SECTION 2.  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,

2-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-18     passage, and it is so enacted.