1-1 By: Pickett, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh) H.B. No. 2004 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1999; 1-3 May 5, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to authorizing the Texas Department of Transportation to 1-9 lease additional equipment to counties for the automated motor 1-10 vehicle registration and title system. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 520, Transportation Code, 1-13 is amended by adding Section 520.002 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 520.002. LEASE OF ADDITIONAL COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. (a) 1-15 This section applies only to the lease of equipment to a county for 1-16 the operation of the automated registration and title system in 1-17 addition to the equipment provided by the department at no cost to 1-18 the county under a formula prescribed by the department. 1-19 (b) On the request of the tax assessor-collector of a 1-20 county, the department may enter into an agreement with the 1-21 commissioners court of that county under which the department 1-22 leases additional equipment to the county for the use of the tax 1-23 assessor-collector in operating the automated registration and 1-24 title system in that county. 1-25 (c) A county may install equipment leased under this section 1-26 at offices of the county or of an agent of the county. 1-27 (d) Equipment leased under this section: 1-28 (1) remains the property of the department; and 1-29 (2) must be used primarily for the automated 1-30 registration and title system. 1-31 (e) Under the agreement, the department shall charge the 1-32 county an amount not less than the amount of the cost to the 1-33 department to provide the additional equipment and any related 1-34 services under the lease. All money collected under the lease 1-35 shall be deposited to the credit of the state highway fund. 1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-42 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-43 * * * * *