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.
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