By Hill                                               H.B. No. 1512
         76R5965 JD-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the issuance of a certificate of title for commercial
 1-3     motor vehicles registered under an allocation or mileage
 1-4     apportionment plan.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 501, Transportation Code,
 1-7     is amended by adding Section 501.0231 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 501.0231.  APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF TITLE FOR
 1-9     CERTAIN COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES.  (a)  This section applies only
1-10     to a commercial motor vehicle, as defined by Section 502.001, that
1-11     is:
1-12                 (1)  eligible for registration under an agreement
1-13     entered into by the department under Section 502.054; and
1-14                 (2)  proposed to be operated under a registration
1-15     issued under that section.
1-16           (b)  In lieu of applying to the county assessor-collector
1-17     under Section 501.023(a)(1), the owner of the commercial motor
1-18     vehicle may apply to the department for a certificate of title to
1-19     the vehicle.  The application must be:
1-20                 (1)  on a form prescribed by the department; and
1-21                 (2)  accompanied by a fee of $13.
1-22           (c)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
1-23     shall deposit:
1-24                 (1)  $5 in the general revenue fund; and
 2-1                 (2)  $8 to the credit of the state highway fund.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  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.