1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 754
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the issuance of special license plates in honor of the
 1-9     citrus industry in Texas.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
1-12     is amended by adding Section 502.299 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 502.299.  TEXAS CITRUS INDUSTRY.  (a)  The department
1-14     shall issue specially designed license plates for passenger cars
1-15     and light trucks in honor of the citrus industry in this state.
1-16           (b)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-17     section to a person who:
1-18                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-19     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-20     department; and
1-21                 (2)  pays the annual fee established by the department
1-22     under Subsection (c), in addition to the fee prescribed by Section
1-23     502.161, and, if personalized prestige license plates are issued,
1-24     in addition to the fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
1-25           (c)  The department by rule shall establish the annual fee
1-26     for registration under this section in an amount that, when added
1-27     to the other fees collected by the department, does not exceed the
1-28     amount sufficient to recover the actual cost to the department of
1-29     issuing license plates under this section.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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