AN ACT
 1-1     relating to special license plates benefitting the Girl Scouts.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
 1-4     is amended by adding Section 502.2931 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 502.2931.  GIRL SCOUT LICENSE PLATES.  (a)  The
 1-6     department shall issue specially designed Girl Scout license plates
 1-7     for passenger cars and light trucks.
 1-8           (b)  The license plates must include the words "Girl Scouts."
 1-9           (c)  The department shall design the license plates in
1-10     consultation with the Girl Scout Councils of Texas.
1-11           (d)  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 an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-17     prescribed by Section 502.161 or Section 502.162, and, if
1-18     personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the
1-19     fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
1-20           (e)  The department shall deposit $20 of each fee collected
1-21     under this section to the credit of the Girl Scout account in the
1-22     state treasury.  Money in the account may be used by the Texas
1-23     Higher Education Coordinating Board in making grants to benefit
1-24     educational projects sponsored by the Girl Scout Councils of Texas.
 2-1           (f)  The remainder of each fee collected under this section,
 2-2     after deposit as provided by Subsection (e), shall be deposited to
 2-3     the credit of the state highway fund and may be used only to defray
 2-4     the cost of administering this section.
 2-5           (g)  If license plates issued under this section are lost,
 2-6     stolen, or mutilated, the owner of the vehicle for which the
 2-7     license plates were issued may obtain replacement license plates
 2-8     from the department by paying a replacement fee of $5.  If the
 2-9     owner of a vehicle registered under this section disposes of the
2-10     vehicle during the registration year, the owner shall return the
2-11     special license plates to the department.
2-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 322 passed the Senate on
         March 18, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 1999, by a
         viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 322 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 22, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor