By Goolsby                                            H.B. No. 1730
         77R4204 JAT-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement that the name of a state agency be
 1-3     printed on certain state motor vehicles.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 721.003, Transportation Code, is amended
 1-6     by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (a)  The governing bodies of the following state agencies or
 1-9     divisions by rule may exempt from the requirements of Section
1-10     721.002 a motor vehicle that is under the control and custody of
1-11     the agency or division:
1-12                 (1)  Texas Commission on Fire Protection;
1-13                 (2)  Texas State Board of Pharmacy;
1-14                 (3)  Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-15     Retardation;
1-16                 (4)  Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas;
1-17                 (5)  the institutional division or the pardons and
1-18     paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-19                 (6)  Board of Pardons and Paroles;
1-20                 (7)  Parks and Wildlife Department;
1-21                 (8)  Railroad Commission of Texas;
1-22                 (9)  Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
1-23                 (10)  Texas Department of Banking [Department of
1-24     Texas];
 2-1                 (11)  Savings and Loan Department [of Texas];
 2-2                 (12)  Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;
 2-3                 (13)  Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission;
 2-4                 (14)  Texas Youth Commission; [and]
 2-5                 (15)  Texas Lottery Commission; and
 2-6                 (16)  an agency that receives an appropriation under an
 2-7     article of the General Appropriations Act that appropriates money
 2-8     to the legislature.
 2-9           (e)  A rule adopted by the Texas Lottery Commission under
2-10     Subsection (a)  may exempt from the requirements of Section 721.002
2-11     only a motor vehicle used exclusively for surveillance purposes.
2-12           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.