By Luna                                               H.B. No. 1276
         76R1413 JD-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the issuance of Texas Young Lawyers Association license
 1-3     plates.
 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 502.299 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 502.299.  TEXAS YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION LICENSE
 1-8     PLATES.  (a)  The department shall issue specially designed Texas
 1-9     Young Lawyers Association  license plates for passenger cars and
1-10     light trucks.
1-11           (b)  The license plates must:
1-12                 (1)  be of a color, quality, and design approved by the
1-13     Texas Young Lawyers Association in consultation with the
1-14     department; and
1-15                 (2)  bear the words "And Justice For All."
1-16           (c)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-17     section to a person who:
1-18                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-19     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-20     department; and
1-21                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-22     prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige
1-23     license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by
1-24     Section 502.251.
 2-1           (d)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
 2-2     shall deposit $25 to the credit of the basic civil legal services
 2-3     account established under Section 51.903, Government Code, as added
 2-4     by Chapter 699, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
 2-5     1997.  The remainder of the fee may be used only by the department
 2-6     to defray the cost of administering this section.
 2-7           (e)  If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
 2-8     disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
 2-9     shall return the special license plates to the department.
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.