By Ellis S.B. No. 246 76R3459 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to promotion of the purchase of specialized license 1-3 plates. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 502.057 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 502.057. PROMOTION OF SPECIALIZED LICENSE PLATES. The 1-8 department shall develop and produce a brochure describing 1-9 available specialized license plates and promoting the purchase of 1-10 the plates. The department shall distribute the brochure to 1-11 persons registering vehicles and shall require that the brochure be 1-12 included in each mailed registration renewal notice. 1-13 SECTION 2. Before January 1, 2001, the Texas Department of 1-14 Transportation shall submit to the lieutenant governor and the 1-15 speaker of the house of representatives a report including: 1-16 (1) an analysis of the effect on the sale of 1-17 specialized license plates of the promotional activities required 1-18 by Section 502.057, Transportation Code, as added by this Act; and 1-19 (2) recommendations to improve the marketing of 1-20 specialized license plates. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 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.