By Counts H.B. No. 1833 76R9560 JMC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the issuance of a personal identification certificate 1-3 to a justice of the peace or municipal court judge by the 1-4 Department of Public Safety. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 521.103 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 521.103. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OR MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE 1-9 CERTIFICATE. (a) The department may issue a notated personal 1-10 identification certificate to a person who is appointed or elected 1-11 as the judge of a municipal court or the justice of a justice 1-12 court. The department may indicate the office on the certificate 1-13 by word, symbol, or code. 1-14 (b) An application for an original or renewal municipal 1-15 court judge or justice of the peace certificate must: 1-16 (1) be submitted on a form prescribed by the 1-17 department; and 1-18 (2) include the information required by the 1-19 department. 1-20 (c) A personal identification certificate issued by the 1-21 department under this section expires on the date the term of 1-22 office of the judge or justice expires. 1-23 (d) The department may not charge a fee for issuing a 1-24 personal identification certificate under this section. 2-1 SECTION 2. The department shall prescribe a form of an 2-2 application as required by Section 521.103(b), Transportation Code, 2-3 as added by this Act, not later than October 1, 1999. 2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.