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.