By: Fraser S.B. No. 1621 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to registration fees for surviving spouses of certain 1-2 military veterans. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 502.266, Transportation 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (c) The surviving spouse of a person who was killed in 1-7 action while serving in the United States armed forces is entitled 1-8 to register one or more motor vehicles under Section 502.258 as 1-9 long as the spouse remains unmarried. A person entitled to 1-10 register under this subsection may register one passenger car or 1-11 light truck without payment of a registration fee or a fee under 1-12 Section 502.258. An application for registration under this 1-13 subsection must be on a form provided by the department and be 1-14 accompanied by a fee of $3. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-16 applies only to a registration period beginning on or after the 1-17 effective date of this Act. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.