1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 722
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1997; February 26, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 25, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 25, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 722 By: Gallegos
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the refusal of registration of motor vehicles by a
1-11 county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of Transportation
1-12 under certain conditions.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 702.003,
1-15 Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-16 (a) A county assessor-collector or the Texas Department of
1-17 Transportation [department] may refuse to register a motor vehicle
1-18 if the assessor-collector or the department receives under a
1-19 contract information from a municipality that the owner of the
1-20 vehicle has an outstanding warrant from that municipality for
1-21 failure to appear or failure to pay a fine on a complaint that
1-22 involves the violation of a traffic law and may also refuse to
1-23 register a motor vehicle if the assessor-collector or the
1-24 department receives under a contract information from a
1-25 municipality with a population of 440,000 or more located in a
1-26 county with more than 35 incorporated cities that the owner of the
1-27 vehicle has three or more unpaid parking tickets.
1-28 (c) A municipality that has a contract under Subsection (b)
1-29 shall notify the county or the department regarding a person for
1-30 whom the county assessor-collector or the department has refused to
1-31 register a motor vehicle on:
1-32 (1) entry of a judgment against the person and the
1-33 person's payment to the court of the fine for the violation and of
1-34 all court costs;
1-35 (2) perfection of an appeal of the case for which the
1-36 arrest warrant was issued; [or]
1-37 (3) dismissal of the charge for which the arrest
1-38 warrant was issued; or
1-39 (4) dismissal of or the payment of parking citations
1-40 on the basis of which registration had been refused.
1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47 passage, and it is so enacted.
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