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78S10590 DWS-D

By:  Gutierrez                                                    H.B. No. 115



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the fee for the motor vehicle financial responsibility 
verification program; making an appropriation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 502.1715(a) and (b), Transportation 
Code, as added by H.B. No. 3588, Acts of the 78th Legislature, 
Regular Session, 2003, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  In addition to other fees imposed for registration of a 
motor vehicle, at the time of application for registration or 
renewal of registration of a motor vehicle that is subject to 
Section 501.0234 and for which the owner is required to submit 
evidence of financial responsibility under Section 502.153, the 
applicant shall pay a fee of $1.
	(b)  Prior to August 31, 2005, fees collected under this 
subchapter shall be deposited to the credit of the state highway 
fund. The [Subject to appropriation, the] money shall be used by the 
Department of Public Safety to:
		(1)  support the Department of Public Safety's 
reengineering of the driver's license system to provide for the 
issuance by the Department of Public Safety of a driver's license or 
personal identification certificate, not to include use of 
biometric information; [and]
		(2)  establish and maintain a system to support the 
driver responsibility program under Chapter 708; and
		(3)  conduct the feasibility study authorized by 
Section 601.450.    
	SECTION 2.  All fees collected during the state fiscal 
biennium beginning September 1, 2003, by the Texas Department of 
Transportation under Section 502.1715, Transportation Code, as 
added by House Bill No. 3588, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular 
Session, 2003, and as amended by this Act, are appropriated to the 
Department of Public Safety for the state fiscal biennium beginning 
September 1, 2003, for the purposes provided by Section 
502.1715(b), Transportation Code, as added by House Bill No. 3588, 
Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, and as amended 
by this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary to take effect on 
that date, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day 
of the legislative session.