By: Carona  S.B. No. 1084
         (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2007; March 14, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
  Security; March 26, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 26, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to advertising in Department of Public Safety of the State
  of Texas driver's license mailings.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.006, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 521.006.  ADVERTISING IN DRIVER'S HANDBOOK AND DRIVER'S
  LICENSE MAILINGS. (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the
  department may sell advertising for inclusion in:
               (1)  any driver's handbook that the department
  publishes; and
               (2)  any mailing the department makes in connection
  with a driver's license.
         (b)  The department shall deposit the proceeds from the
  advertising to the credit of the driver's license administration
  [handbook] advertising account. The driver's license
  administration [handbook] advertising account is an account in the
  general revenue fund that may be appropriated only for the purpose
  of administration of this chapter.
         (c)  The department may not include in the driver's handbook
  or a driver's license mailing advertising for an alcoholic beverage
  or a product promoting alcoholic beverages.
         SECTION 2.  This Act does not abolish the driver's handbook
  advertising account, but renames the account as the driver's
  license administration advertising account.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately 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 for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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