By Swinford H.B. No. 1949
76R7882 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the fee for issuance of Texas Commission on the Arts
1-3 license plates.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 502.272(c) and (d), Transportation Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this
1-8 section to a person who:
1-9 (1) applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-10 county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-11 department; and
1-12 (2) pays an annual fee of $26 [$25], in addition to
1-13 the fee prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized
1-14 prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the fee
1-15 prescribed by Section 502.251.
1-16 (d) Of each fee collected under this section, the [The]
1-17 department shall deposit:
1-18 (1) $1 to the credit of the Texas cultural endowment
1-19 fund established under Section 444.026, Government Code; and
1-20 (2) $20 [of each fee collected under this section] to
1-21 the credit of the Texas Commission on the Arts operating fund
1-22 established under Section 444.027 of that code [, Government Code].
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.