By Jackson                                            S.B. No. 1748
         76R3639 SMH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the issuance of combination licenses by the Motor
 1-3     Vehicle Board of the Texas Department of Transportation.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Texas Motor Vehicle Commission Code
 1-6     (Article 4413(36), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
 1-7     adding Section 4.03C to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 4.03C.  COMBINATION LICENSE.  (a)  The board by rule
 1-9     shall provide for the issuance of a combination license that
1-10     permits a license holder to perform activities for which more than
1-11     one license is required under this Act.
1-12           (b)  An applicant for a combination license may file a single
1-13     application on a form prescribed by the board.  The application
1-14     must:
1-15                 (1)  state the activities the applicant seeks to
1-16     perform;
1-17                 (2)  include the information required for an
1-18     application for each license required to perform those activities;
1-19     and
1-20                 (3)  be accompanied by a fee equal to the sum of the
1-21     fees required for each of those licenses.
1-22           (c)  If the board grants the application, the board shall
1-23     issue a combination license that specifies the activities
1-24     authorized by the license.
 2-1           (d)  A person who holds more than one license may obtain from
 2-2     the board a combination license that authorizes each of the
 2-3     activities  authorized by the component licenses.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.