1-1 By: Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 2461
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
1-3 April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Cain
1-7 Amend H.B. 2461 in SECTION 1 of the bill, Section 502.2525,
1-8 Subsection (a) by striking number (11) and renumbering
1-9 appropriately. (House Engrossment, page 1, line 35)
1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11 AN ACT
1-12 relating to the issuance of certain specially designed license
1-13 plates by the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-15 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-16 is amended by adding Sections 502.2525 and 502.2526 to read as
1-17 follows:
1-18 Sec. 502.2525. DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN SPECIALIZED LICENSE
1-19 PLATES. (a) This section applies only to license plates
1-20 authorized by:
1-21 (1) Section 502.269;
1-22 (2) Section 502.270;
1-23 (3) Section 502.2703;
1-24 (4) Section 502.271;
1-25 (5) Section 502.272;
1-26 (6) Section 502.2731;
1-27 (7) Section 502.291, as added by Chapter 165, Acts of
1-28 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-29 (8) Section 502.291, as added by Chapter 657, Acts of
1-30 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-31 (9) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 61, Acts of
1-32 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-33 (10) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 397, Acts of
1-34 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-35 (11) Section 502.292, as added by Chapter 1312, Acts
1-36 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-37 (12) Section 502.293, as added by Chapter 511, Acts of
1-38 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-39 (13) Section 502.293, as added by Chapter 1247, Acts
1-40 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997;
1-41 (14) Section 502.294, as added by Chapter 1222, Acts
1-42 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997; or
1-43 (15) Section 502.295, as added by Chapter 581, Acts of
1-44 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997.
1-45 (b) Except as provided by Subsections (d) and (e), on or
1-46 after September 1, 2004, the department may continue to issue
1-47 license plates to which this section applies only if before that
1-48 date at least:
1-49 (1) 3,500 sets of the license plates authorized by a
1-50 section of this subchapter specified by Subsection (a) have been
1-51 issued or presold;
1-52 (2) $15,000 has been received by the department from
1-53 the issuance of license plates under that section; or
1-54 (3) $15,000 has been deposited with the department for
1-55 the continued issuance of those license plates.
1-56 (c) If before September 1, 2004, one of the conditions
1-57 described by Subsection (b) is not met for a type of license plate
1-58 to which this section applies, the section of this subchapter that
1-59 authorizes the issuance of that type of license plate expires on
1-60 that date.
1-61 (d) On or after September 1, 2004, the department may
1-62 continue to issue license plates under:
1-63 (1) Section 502.270 for a particular institution of
2-1 higher education or private college or university only if before
2-2 that date:
2-3 (A) 1,500 sets of license plates for the
2-4 particular institution, college, or university have been issued or
2-5 presold;
2-6 (B) $15,000 has been received by the department
2-7 from the issuance of the license plates for that institution,
2-8 college, or university; or
2-9 (C) $15,000 has been deposited with the
2-10 department for the continued issuance of the license plates for
2-11 that institution, college, or university; or
2-12 (2) Section 502.2703 for a particular professional
2-13 sports team only if before that date:
2-14 (A) 5,000 sets of the license plates for that
2-15 sports team have been issued or presold;
2-16 (B) $15,000 has been received by the department
2-17 from the issuance of license plates for that sports team; or
2-18 (C) $15,000 has been deposited with the
2-19 department for the continued issuance of license plates for that
2-20 sports team.
2-21 (e) If before September 1, 2004, the department has not
2-22 issued any license plates under Section 502.2703, that section
2-23 expires on that date.
2-24 (f) Money deposited with the department under Subsection
2-25 (b)(3), (d)(1)(C), or (d)(2)(C) shall be returned by the department
2-26 to the person who made the deposit only after the requisite number
2-27 of license plates under those subsections are issued or presold.
2-28 Sec. 502.2526. SPECIALIZED LICENSE PLATES AUTHORIZED AFTER
2-29 JANUARY 1, 1999. (a) This section applies only to specialized
2-30 license plates that are authorized to be issued by a law that takes
2-31 effect on or after January 1, 1999.
2-32 (b) The department may manufacture the specialized license
2-33 plates only if a request for manufacture of the license plates is
2-34 filed with the department. The request must be:
2-35 (1) made on a form adopted by the department;
2-36 (2) filed before the fifth anniversary of the
2-37 effective date of the law that authorizes the issuance of the
2-38 specialized license plates; and
2-39 (3) accompanied by:
2-40 (A) a deposit of $15,000; or
2-41 (B) applications for issuance of at least 3,500
2-42 sets of the license plates plus the fees for issuance of that
2-43 number of sets.
2-44 (c) Money deposited with the department under Subsection
2-45 (b)(3)(A) shall be returned to the person who made the deposit only
2-46 if 3,500 sets of the applicable license plates are issued or
2-47 presold.
2-48 (d) If a request is not filed with the department before the
2-49 date specified by Subsection (b)(2), the law that authorizes the
2-50 issuance of the specialized license plates expires on that date.
2-51 SECTION 2. Sections 502.2731(c) and (e), Transportation
2-52 Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-53 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this
2-54 section to a person who:
2-55 (1) applies to the county assessor-collector of the
2-56 county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
2-57 department; and
2-58 (2) pays an annual fee of $25 [$50], in addition to
2-59 the fee prescribed by Section 502.161 or Section 502.162 and, if
2-60 personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the
2-61 fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
2-62 (e) Twenty [Forty-five] dollars of each fee collected under
2-63 Subsection (c)(2) may be used by the department only for the
2-64 purposes of supporting the department's litter prevention and
2-65 community beautification programs. The remainder of each fee
2-66 collected may be used by the department only to defray the cost of
2-67 administering this section.
2-68 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-69 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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