1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 1833 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the issuance of a personal identification certificate 1-9 to a justice of the peace or municipal court judge by the 1-10 Department of Public Safety. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 521, Transportation Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 521.103 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 521.103. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OR MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE 1-15 CERTIFICATE. (a) The department may issue a notated personal 1-16 identification certificate to a person who is appointed or elected 1-17 as the judge of a municipal court or the justice of a justice 1-18 court. The department may indicate the office on the certificate 1-19 by word, symbol, or code. 1-20 (b) An application for an original or renewal municipal 1-21 court judge or justice of the peace certificate must: 1-22 (1) be submitted on a form prescribed by the 1-23 department; and 1-24 (2) include the information required by the 1-25 department. 1-26 (c) A personal identification certificate issued by the 1-27 department under this section expires on the date the term of 1-28 office of the judge or justice expires. 1-29 (d) The department may not charge a fee for issuing a 1-30 personal identification certificate under this section. 1-31 SECTION 2. The department shall prescribe a form of an 1-32 application as required by Section 521.103(b), Transportation Code, 1-33 as added by this Act, not later than October 1, 1999. 1-34 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-35 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-40 * * * * *