AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the issuance of Texas Young Lawyers Association license
 1-2     plates.
 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 YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION LICENSE
 1-7     PLATES.  (a)  The department shall issue specially designed Texas
 1-8     Young Lawyers Association license plates for passenger cars and
 1-9     light trucks.
1-10           (b)  The license plates must bear the words "And Justice For
1-11     All" and be of a color, quality, and design approved by the Texas
1-12     Young Lawyers Association in consultation with the department.
1-13           (c)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-14     section to a person who:
1-15                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-16     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-17     department; and
1-18                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-19     prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige
1-20     license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by
1-21     Section 502.251.
1-22           (d)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
1-23     shall deposit $25 to the credit of the basic civil legal services
1-24     account established under Section 51.903, Government Code, as added
 2-1     by Chapter 699, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
 2-2     1997.  The remainder of the fee may be used only by the department
 2-3     to defray the cost of administering this section.
 2-4           (e)  If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
 2-5     disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
 2-6     shall return the special license plates to the department.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     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. 987 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 987 passed the House on
         May 22, 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