1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to registration of certain motor vehicles by a county tax
1-3 assessor-collector.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.153, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (j) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (j), the [The] owner of
1-9 a motor vehicle, other than a trailer or semitrailer, for which
1-10 evidence of financial responsibility is required by Section
1-11 601.051 or a person who represents the owner for purposes of
1-12 registering a motor vehicle shall submit evidence of financial
1-13 responsibility with the application for registration under Section
1-14 502.151. A county assessor-collector may not register the motor
1-15 vehicle unless the owner or the owner's representative submits the
1-16 evidence of financial responsibility.
1-17 (j) This section does not apply to a vehicle registered
1-18 pursuant to Section 501.0234.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1707 was passed by the House on April
13, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1707 was passed by the Senate on May
13, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor