1-1     By:  Ellis, Zaffirini                                  S.B. No. 322
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1999; February 2, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to special license plates benefiting the Girl Scouts.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-11     is amended by adding Section 502.2931 to read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 502.2931. GIRL SCOUT LICENSE PLATES.  (a)  The
1-13     department shall issue specially designed Girl Scout license plates
1-14     for passenger cars and light trucks.
1-15           (b)  The license plates must include the words "Girl Scouts"
1-16     and be of a color, quality, and design approved by the Girl Scout
1-17     Councils of Texas.
1-18           (c)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-19     section to a person who:
1-20                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-21     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-22     department; and
1-23                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-24     prescribed by Section 502.161 or Section 502.162, and, if
1-25     personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the
1-26     fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
1-27           (d)  The department shall deposit $20 of each fee collected
1-28     under this section to the credit of the Girl Scout account in the
1-29     state treasury.  Money in the account may be used only by the Texas
1-30     Higher Education Coordinating Board in making grants to benefit
1-31     educational projects sponsored or approved by the Girl Scout
1-32     Councils of Texas.
1-33           (e)  The remainder of each fee collected under this section,
1-34     after deposit as provided by Subsection (d), shall be deposited to
1-35     the credit of the state highway fund and may be used only to defray
1-36     the cost of administering this section.
1-37           (f)  If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
1-38     disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
1-39     shall return the special license plates to the department.
1-40           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-41           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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