1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1707
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1999;
1-3 April 15, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Economic Development; May 5, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to registration of certain motor vehicles by a county tax
1-9 assessor-collector.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 502.153, Transportation Code, is amended
1-12 by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (j) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (j), the [The] owner of
1-15 a motor vehicle, other than a trailer or semitrailer, for which
1-16 evidence of financial responsibility is required by Section
1-17 601.051 or a person who represents the owner for purposes of
1-18 registering a motor vehicle shall submit evidence of financial
1-19 responsibility with the application for registration under Section
1-20 502.151. A county assessor-collector may not register the motor
1-21 vehicle unless the owner or the owner's representative submits the
1-22 evidence of financial responsibility.
1-23 (j) This section does not apply to a vehicle registered
1-24 pursuant to Section 501.0234.
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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