By Alexander H.B. No. 2461
76R8271 JD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of certain specially designed license
1-3 plates by the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-6 is amended by adding Section 502.2525 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 502.2525. DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN SPECIALIZED LICENSE
1-8 PLATES. (a) This section applies only to license plates
1-9 authorized by:
1-10 (1) Section 502.269;
1-11 (2) Section 502.270;
1-12 (3) Section 502.2703;
1-13 (4) Section 502.271;
1-14 (5) Section 502.272;
1-15 (6) Section 502.2731;
1-16 (7) Section 502.291, as added by Chapter 165, Acts of
1-17 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-18 (8) Section 502.291, as added by Chapter 657, Acts of
1-19 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-20 (9) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 61, Acts of
1-21 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-22 (10) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 397, Acts of
1-23 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-24 (11) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 1312, Acts
2-1 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
2-2 (12) Section 502.293, as added by Chapter 511, Acts of
2-3 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
2-4 (13) Section 502.293, as added by Chapter 1247, Acts
2-5 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
2-6 (14) Section 502.294, as added by Chapter 1222, Acts
2-7 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997; or
2-8 (15) Section 502.295, as added by Chapter 581, Acts of
2-9 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
2-10 (b) Except as provided by Subsections (d) and (e), on or
2-11 after September 1, 2004, the department may continue to issue
2-12 license plates to which this section applies only if before that
2-13 date at least:
2-14 (1) 3,500 sets of the license plates authorized by a
2-15 section of this subchapter specified by Subsection (a) have been
2-16 issued or presold;
2-17 (2) $15,000 has been received by the department from
2-18 the issuance of license plates under that section; or
2-19 (3) $15,000 has been deposited with the department for
2-20 the continued issuance of those license plates.
2-21 (c) If before September 1, 2004, one of the conditions
2-22 described by Subsection (b) is not met for a type of license plate
2-23 to which this section applies, the section of this subchapter that
2-24 authorizes the issuance of that type of license plate expires on
2-25 that date.
2-26 (d) On or after September 1, 2004, the department may
2-27 continue to issue license plates under:
3-1 (1) Section 502.270 for a particular institution of
3-2 higher education or private college or university only if before
3-3 that date:
3-4 (A) 1,500 sets of license plates for the
3-5 particular institution, college, or university have been issued or
3-6 presold;
3-7 (B) $15,000 has been received by the department
3-8 from the issuance of the license plates for that institution,
3-9 college, or university; or
3-10 (C) $15,000 has been deposited with the
3-11 department for the continued issuance of the license plates for
3-12 that institution, college, or university; or
3-13 (2) Section 502.2703 for a particular professional
3-14 sports team only if before that date:
3-15 (A) 5,000 sets of the license plates for that
3-16 sports team have been issued or presold;
3-17 (B) $15,000 has been received by the department
3-18 from the issuance of license plates for that sports team; or
3-19 (C) $15,000 has been deposited with the
3-20 department for the continued issuance of license plates for that
3-21 team.
3-22 (e) If before September 1, 2004, the department has not
3-23 issued any license plates under Section 502.2703, that section
3-24 expires on that date.
3-25 (f) Money deposited with the department under Subsection
3-26 (b)(3), (d)(1)(C), or (d)(2)(C) shall be returned by the department
3-27 to the person who made the deposit only after the requisite number
4-1 of license plates under those subsections are issued.
4-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
4-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.