78R1588 JRJ-D


By:  Krusee                                                       H.B. No. 943



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to vehicles eligible for conservation license plates 
supporting the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 502.2734(a), (c), and (g), 
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The department shall issue one or more specially 
designed conservation license plates for the following vehicles
[for passenger cars and light trucks] to support Texas Parks and 
Wildlife Department activities:
		(1)  passenger cars and light trucks;                                  
		(2)  trailers used primarily for the transport of 
watercraft as defined by Section 49.01, Penal Code;
		(3)  vehicles primarily designed as temporary living 
quarters for recreational camping or travel use, including travel 
trailers, travel semitrailers, camping trailers, camping 
semitrailers, and motor homes;
		(4)  farm tractors, farm trailers, and farm 
semitrailers; and        
		(5)  truck-tractors, semitrailers, and commercial 
motor vehicles.    
	(c) The department shall issue license plates under this 
section to a person who:
		(1)  applies to the county assessor-collector of the 
county in which the person resides on an original or renewal 
registration application form provided by the department;  and
		(2)  pays an annual fee of $25, in addition to the fee 
prescribed by Section 502.161, 502.162, 502.163, 502.166, or 
502.167, and, if personalized prestige license plates are issued, 
in addition to the fee prescribed by Section 502.251.
	(g)  There is no limit to the number of vehicles [passenger 
cars or light trucks] for which a person may apply for the issuance 
of license plates under this section.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.