This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
78R935 JTS-D
By: Delisi H.B. No. 542
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of Texas Master Gardener license plates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 502.2737 to read as follows:
Sec. 502.2737. TEXAS MASTER GARDENER LICENSE PLATES. (a)
The department shall issue specially designed license plates for
passenger cars and light trucks that include the seal of the Texas
Master Gardener program of Texas Cooperative Extension.
(b) The department shall issue license plates under this
section to a person who:
(1) applies to the assessor-collector of the county in
which the person resides on a form provided by the department; and
(2) pays an annual fee of $30, in addition to the fee
prescribed by Section 502.161 or Section 502.162 and, if
personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the
fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
(c) Of each fee collected under Subsection (b)(2), $5 shall
be used by the department only to defray the cost of administering
this section. The department shall deposit the remainder of each
fee collected to the credit of an account in the general revenue
fund that may be appropriated only to Texas Cooperative Extension
for graduate student assistantships within the Texas Master
Gardener program and to support Texas Cooperative Extension's
activities related to the Texas Master Gardener program.
(d) If the owner of a vehicle for which license plates were
issued under this section disposes of the vehicle during a
registration year, the owner shall return the special license
plates to the department.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.