By Fraser                                             S.B. No. 1621
         76R4344 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to registration fees for surviving spouses of certain
 1-3     military veterans.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 502.266(c), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The surviving spouse of a person who was killed in
 1-8     action while serving in the United States armed forces is entitled
 1-9     to register one or more motor vehicles under Section 502.258 as
1-10     long as the spouse remains unmarried.  A person entitled to
1-11     register under this subsection may register one passenger car or
1-12     light truck without payment of a registration fee or a fee under
1-13     Section 502.258.  An application for registration under this
1-14     subsection must be on a form provided by the department and be
1-15     accompanied by a fee of $3.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-17     applies only to a registration period beginning on or after the
1-18     effective date of this Act.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.