1-1     By:  Ratliff                                           S.B. No. 432
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1999; February 9, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     April 27, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 27, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 432                  By:  Bernsen
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the designation of an initial or a renewal registration
1-11     period by the owner of a motor vehicle or a trailer.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-14     is amended by adding Section 502.1585 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 502.1585.  DESIGNATION OF REGISTRATION PERIOD BY OWNER.
1-16     (a)  This section applies only to a person who owns more than one
1-17     motor vehicle or trailer that is subject to registration under this
1-18     chapter.
1-19           (b)  Notwithstanding Section 502.158, the owner of a motor
1-20     vehicle or a trailer may designate an initial or a renewal
1-21     registration period for that vehicle so that the registration
1-22     period for the vehicle or trailer expires on the same date as the
1-23     registration period for another vehicle or trailer previously
1-24     registered by that owner.
1-25           (c)  A registration period designated under this section must
1-26     begin on the first day of a calendar month and end on the last day
1-27     of a calendar month and may not be for less than 12 months.
1-28           (d)  The registration fee for a registration period
1-29     designated under this section is computed at a rate of one-twelfth
1-30     the annual registration fee multiplied by the number of months in
1-31     the designated registration period.
1-32           (e)  The department shall issue an applicant for registration
1-33     who pays registration fees for a designated period under this
1-34     section a registration receipt and registration insignia that are
1-35     valid until the expiration of the designated period.
1-36           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-37           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-38     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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