76R10192 JD-F                           
         By Hawley                                             H.B. No. 3014
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3014:
         By Uher                                           C.S.H.B. No. 3014
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Texas Department of Transportation's automated
 1-3     registration and title system.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 502.1705 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 502.1705.  ADDITIONAL FEE FOR AUTOMATED REGISTRATION AND
 1-8     TITLE SYSTEM.  (a)  In addition to other registration fees for a
 1-9     license plate or set of license plates or other device used as the
1-10     registration insignia, a fee of $1 shall be collected.
1-11           (b)  The department may use money collected under this
1-12     section only to:
1-13                 (1)  enhance the department's automated registration
1-14     and title system;
1-15                 (2)  provide for the automated on-site production of
1-16     registration insignia; and
1-17                 (3)  provide for automated on-premises and off-premises
1-18     self-service registration.
1-19           (c)  This section applies only in a county in which the
1-20     department's automated registration and title system has been
1-21     implemented.
1-22           SECTION 2.  Section 502.180(e), Transportation Code, is
1-23     amended to read as follows:
1-24           (e)  The department shall adopt rules for the issuance and
 2-1     use of license plates and registration insignia issued under this
 2-2     chapter.  The rules shall provide for the use of an automated
 2-3     registration process, including:
 2-4                 (1)  the automated on-site production of registration
 2-5     insignia; and
 2-6                 (2)  automated on-premises and off-premises
 2-7     self-service registration.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  Sections 502.184(a) and (i), Transportation Code,
 2-9     are amended to read as follows:
2-10           (a)  The owner of a registered motor vehicle may obtain from
2-11     the department through the county assessor-collector replacement
2-12     license plates or a replacement registration insignia by:
2-13                 (1)  filing with the assessor-collector a statement:
2-14                       (A)  showing that one or both of the license
2-15     plates or the registration insignia to be replaced has been lost,
2-16     stolen, or mutilated; and
2-17                       (B)  stating that no license plate or
2-18     registration insignia to be replaced will be used on any vehicle
2-19     owned or operated by the person making the statement;
2-20                 (2)  paying a fee of $5 plus the fees [fee] required by
2-21     Sections [Section] 502.170(a) and 502.1705(a) for each set of
2-22     replacement license plates or each replacement registration
2-23     insignia, except as provided by Subsection (b), (c), or (i); and
2-24                 (3)  returning to the assessor-collector each replaced
2-25     plate or registration insignia in the owner's possession.
2-26           (i)  The owner of a vehicle listed in Section 502.180(h) may
2-27     obtain replacement plates and a replacement registration insignia
 3-1     by paying a fee of $5 plus the fees [fee] required by Sections
 3-2     [Section] 502.170(a) and 502.1705(a).
 3-3           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 3-4           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.