1-1     By:  Ratliff                                           S.B. No. 987
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 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 Texas Young Lawyers Association license
 1-9     plates.
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 YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION LICENSE
1-14     PLATES.  (a)  The department shall issue specially designed Texas
1-15     Young Lawyers Association license plates for passenger cars and
1-16     light trucks.
1-17           (b)  The license plates must bear the words "And Justice For
1-18     All" and be of a color, quality, and design approved by the Texas
1-19     Young Lawyers Association in consultation with the department.
1-20           (c)  The department shall issue license plates under this
1-21     section to a person who:
1-22                 (1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the
1-23     county in which the person resides on a form provided by the
1-24     department; and
1-25                 (2)  pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
1-26     prescribed by Section 502.161, and, if personalized prestige
1-27     license plates are issued, in addition to the fee prescribed by
1-28     Section 502.251.
1-29           (d)  Of each fee collected under this section, the department
1-30     shall deposit $25 to the credit of the basic civil legal services
1-31     account established under Section 51.903, Government Code, as added
1-32     by Chapter 699, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
1-33     1997.  The remainder of the fee may be used only by the department
1-34     to defray the cost of administering this section.
1-35           (e)  If the owner of a vehicle registered under this section
1-36     disposes of the vehicle during the registration year, the owner
1-37     shall return the special license plates to the department.
1-38           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-39           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-40     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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