By Wise H.B. No. 2476
76R4597 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to special Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council license
1-3 plates.
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 502.2723 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 502.2723. CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF TEXAS COUNCIL
1-8 LICENSE PLATES. (a) The department shall issue specially designed
1-9 Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council license plates for passenger
1-10 cars and light trucks.
1-11 (b) The license plates must be of a color, quality, and
1-12 design approved by the Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council. The
1-13 design must feature artwork of children of this state.
1-14 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this
1-15 section to a person who:
1-16 (1) applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-17 county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-18 department; and
1-19 (2) pays an annual fee of $25, in addition to the fee
1-20 prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige
1-21 license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by
1-22 Section 502.251.
1-23 (d) The fee for replacement of a lost, stolen, or mutilated
1-24 license plate issued under this section is $25, in addition to the
2-1 fee prescribed by Section 502.184(a).
2-2 (e) Of each $25 fee collected under Subsection (c) or (d),
2-3 the department shall deposit $20 to the credit of the children's
2-4 trust fund under Section 74.006, Human Resources Code. The
2-5 remainder of the fee may be used by the department only to defray
2-6 the cost of administering this section.
2-7 (f) If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
2-8 disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
2-9 shall return the license plates to the department.
2-10 (g) There is no limit to the number of passenger cars or
2-11 light trucks for which a person may apply for the issuance of
2-12 license plates under this section.
2-13 (h) In addition to the license plates for passenger cars and
2-14 light trucks issued under Subsection (a), the department shall
2-15 design souvenir sample Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council
2-16 license plates designed in accordance with Subsection (b). The
2-17 department and the Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council shall
2-18 adopt joint rules governing the sale of the souvenir sample license
2-19 plates. The fee for a souvenir sample license plate is $10. Of
2-20 each fee collected by the department or the Children's Trust Fund
2-21 of Texas Council under this subsection:
2-22 (1) $3 shall be credited to the department for the
2-23 administration of this subsection; and
2-24 (2) $7 shall be credited to the children's trust fund.
2-25 (i) The Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council may use money
2-26 credited to the children's trust fund under this section only to
2-27 fund programs under Chapter 74, Human Resources Code, in the county
3-1 from which the money was derived. The council is not required to
3-2 fund a program in a county under this subsection until at least
3-3 $1,000 has been derived under Subsections (c) and (d) from persons
3-4 applying for registration in that county and under Subsection (h)
3-5 from persons residing in that county.
3-6 (j) Money deposited to the credit of the children's trust
3-7 fund under this section and interest on that money is exempt from
3-8 the application of Section 403.095, Government Code.
3-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.