AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the issuance of special license plates in honor of the
 1-2     citrus industry in Texas.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 502.299 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 502.299.  TEXAS CITRUS INDUSTRY.  (a)  The department
 1-7     shall issue specially designed license plates for passenger cars
 1-8     and light trucks in honor of the citrus industry in this state.
 1-9           (b)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-10     section to a person who:
1-11                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-12     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-13     department; and
1-14                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-15     prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige
1-16     license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by
1-17     Section 502.251.
1-18           (c)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
1-19     shall deposit $25 to the credit of an account in the general
1-20     revenue fund that may be appropriated only to Texas A&M
1-21     University--Kingsville to provide financial assistance to graduate
1-22     students in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences.  The
1-23     remainder of the fee may be used only by the department to defray
1-24     the cost of administering this section.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     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. 754 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a
         viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 754 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 25, 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