By Jones of Brazos                                    H.B. No. 2554
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to special registration and license plates for members of
 1-3     the Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society.
 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 502.2571 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 502.2571.  MEMBER OF AIR FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION
 1-8     SOCIETY.  (a)  The department shall issue specially designed
 1-9     license plates for passenger cars and light trucks owned by members
1-10     of the Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society.
1-11           (b)  License plates issued under this section must include
1-12     the Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society's logo.
1-13           (c)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-14     section to a person who:
1-15                 (1)  applies to the department on a form prescribed by
1-16     the department;
1-17                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $3; and
1-18                 (3)  submits proof that the person is a member of the
1-19     Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society.
1-20           (d)  The department shall send 50 cents of each fee collected
1-21     under this section to the county treasurer of the county in which
1-22     the applicant resides.  The county treasurer shall credit money
1-23     received under this section to the  general fund of the county to
1-24     pay the costs of administering this section.
 2-1           (e)  A vehicle for which license plates are issued under this
 2-2     section is exempt from the fee under Section 502.161.
 2-3           (f)  A person may be issued only one set of license plates
 2-4     under this section.
 2-5           (g)  If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
 2-6     disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
 2-7     shall return the special license plates to the department.  The
 2-8     owner may then apply for issuance of those plates to another
 2-9     vehicle.
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.