1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the Texas Department of Transportation to 1-3 lease additional equipment to counties for the automated motor 1-4 vehicle registration and title system. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 520, Transportation Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 520.002 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 520.002. LEASE OF ADDITIONAL COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. (a) 1-9 This section applies only to the lease of equipment to a county for 1-10 the operation of the automated registration and title system in 1-11 addition to the equipment provided by the department at no cost to 1-12 the county under a formula prescribed by the department. 1-13 (b) On the request of the tax assessor-collector of a 1-14 county, the department may enter into an agreement with the 1-15 commissioners court of that county under which the department 1-16 leases additional equipment to the county for the use of the tax 1-17 assessor-collector in operating the automated registration and 1-18 title system in that county. 1-19 (c) A county may install equipment leased under this section 1-20 at offices of the county or of an agent of the county. 1-21 (d) Equipment leased under this section: 1-22 (1) remains the property of the department; and 1-23 (2) must be used primarily for the automated 1-24 registration and title system. 2-1 (e) Under the agreement, the department shall charge the 2-2 county an amount not less than the amount of the cost to the 2-3 department to provide the additional equipment and any related 2-4 services under the lease. All money collected under the lease 2-5 shall be deposited to the credit of the state highway fund. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the House on May 3, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the Senate on May 20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor