By Ratliff S.B. No. 433
76R4658 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the payment of certain motor vehicle registration fees
1-3 for a period longer than 12 months.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.158(c), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The department may designate a registration period of
1-8 less than 12 months. The registration fee for a registration
1-9 period of less than 12 months is computed at a rate of one-twelfth
1-10 the annual registration fee multiplied by the number of months in
1-11 the registration period. The department may not designate a
1-12 registration period of more than 12 months, but:
1-13 (1) with the consent of the department, an owner may
1-14 pay registration fees for a designated period of more than 12
1-15 months; and
1-16 (2) an owner of a passenger car or light truck [that
1-17 has not been previously registered in this or another state and is
1-18 of the current or preceding model year] may pay registration fees
1-19 for a designated period of 12, 24, or 36 months.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.