By Ratliff S.B. No. 432 76R4659 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of a registration period of less than 1-3 12 months by the owner of a motor vehicle or a trailer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 502.1585 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 502.1585. DESIGNATION OF REGISTRATION PERIOD BY OWNER. 1-8 (a) Notwithstanding Section 502.158, the owner of a motor vehicle 1-9 or a trailer may designate a registration period for that vehicle 1-10 of less than 12 months. 1-11 (b) A registration period designated under this section must 1-12 begin on the first day of a calendar month and end on the last day 1-13 of a calendar month. 1-14 (c) The registration fee for a registration period 1-15 designated under this section is computed at a rate of one-twelfth 1-16 the annual registration fee multiplied by the number of months in 1-17 the designated registration period. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.