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.