By Pickett, Solis of Cameron, Cuellar H.B. No. 2004 76R7564 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the Texas Department of Transportation to 1-3 lease equipment to counties for the automated motor vehicle 1-4 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 COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. (a) On the 1-9 request of the tax assessor-collector of a county, the department 1-10 may enter into an agreement with that county under which the 1-11 department leases equipment to the county for the use of the tax 1-12 assessor-collector in operating the automated registration and 1-13 title system in that county. 1-14 (b) A county may install equipment leased under this section 1-15 at offices of the county or of an agent of the county. 1-16 (c) Equipment leased under this section: 1-17 (1) remains the property of the department; and 1-18 (2) must be used primarily for the automated 1-19 registration and title system. 1-20 (d) Under the agreement, the department shall charge the 1-21 county an amount not less than the amount of the cost to the 1-22 department to provide the equipment and any related services under 1-23 the lease. All money collected under the lease shall be deposited 1-24 to the credit of the state highway fund. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.