1-1 By: Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Bernsen) H.B. No. 3014
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Texas Department of Transportation's automated
1-9 registration and title system.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-12 is amended by adding Section 502.1705 to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 502.1705. ADDITIONAL FEE FOR AUTOMATED REGISTRATION AND
1-14 TITLE SYSTEM. (a) In addition to other registration fees for a
1-15 license plate or set of license plates or other device used as the
1-16 registration insignia, a fee of $1 shall be collected.
1-17 (b) The department may use money collected under this
1-18 section only to:
1-19 (1) enhance the department's automated registration
1-20 and title system;
1-21 (2) provide for the automated on-site production of
1-22 registration insignia; and
1-23 (3) provide for automated on-premises and off-premises
1-24 self-service registration.
1-25 (c) This section applies only in a county in which the
1-26 department's automated registration and title system has been
1-27 implemented and in which 50,000 or more motor vehicles were
1-28 registered during the preceding year.
1-29 SECTION 2. Section 502.180(e), Transportation Code, is
1-30 amended to read as follows:
1-31 (e) The department shall adopt rules for the issuance and
1-32 use of license plates and registration insignia issued under this
1-33 chapter. The rules shall provide for the use of an automated
1-34 registration process, including:
1-35 (1) the automated on-site production of registration
1-36 insignia; and
1-37 (2) automated on-premises and off-premises
1-38 self-service registration.
1-39 SECTION 3. Sections 502.184(a) and (i), Transportation Code,
1-40 are amended to read as follows:
1-41 (a) The owner of a registered motor vehicle may obtain from
1-42 the department through the county assessor-collector replacement
1-43 license plates or a replacement registration insignia by:
1-44 (1) filing with the assessor-collector a statement:
1-45 (A) showing that one or both of the license
1-46 plates or the registration insignia to be replaced has been lost,
1-47 stolen, or mutilated; and
1-48 (B) stating that no license plate or
1-49 registration insignia to be replaced will be used on any vehicle
1-50 owned or operated by the person making the statement;
1-51 (2) paying a fee of $5 plus the fees [fee] required by
1-52 Sections [Section] 502.170(a) and 502.1705(a) for each set of
1-53 replacement license plates or each replacement registration
1-54 insignia, except as provided by Subsection (b), (c), or (i); and
1-55 (3) returning to the assessor-collector each replaced
1-56 plate or registration insignia in the owner's possession.
1-57 (i) The owner of a vehicle listed in Section 502.180(h) may
1-58 obtain replacement plates and a replacement registration insignia
1-59 by paying a fee of $5 plus the fees [fee] required by Sections
1-60 [Section] 502.170(a) and 502.1705(a).
1-61 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-62 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-63 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-64 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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