By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3744
         76R526(1) JD                           
                                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.
1-11           (b)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-12     section to a person who:
1-13                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-14     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-15     department; and
1-16                 (2)  pays the annual fee established by the department
1-17     under Subsection (c), in addition to the fee prescribed by Section
1-18     502.161, and, if personalized prestige license plates are issued,
1-19     in addition to the fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
1-20           (c)  The department by rule shall establish the annual fee
1-21     for registration under this section in an amount that, when added
1-22     to the other fees collected by the department, does not exceed the
1-23     amount sufficient to recover the actual cost to the department of
1-24     issuing license plates under this section.
1-25           (d)  This section expires January 1, 2006.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.