76R9560 JMC-D                           
         By Counts                                             H.B. No. 1833
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1833:
         By Hinojosa                                       C.S.H.B. No. 1833
                                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.