By Greenberg, Maxey                                   H.B. No. 3744
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the issuance of special license plates in honor of the
 1-3     100th football season of Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin.
 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 502.298 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 502.298.  100TH FOOTBALL SEASON OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN
 1-8     HIGH SCHOOL.  (a)  The department shall issue specially designed
 1-9     license plates for passenger cars and light trucks in honor of the
1-10     100th football season of Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin.
1-11           (b)  The license plates must be of a color, quality, and
1-12     design approved by the principal of Stephen F. Austin High School
1-13     in consultation with the department.
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 $50, 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)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
1-24     shall send $35 to the Texas Education Agency for distribution to
 2-1     the Austin Independent School District to be used only for the
 2-2     benefit of the Austin High School Athletic Department.  The
 2-3     remainder of each fee collected under this section shall be
 2-4     deposited to the credit of the state highway fund.
 2-5           (e)  This section expires January 1, 2006.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.