Amend Amendment No. 39 to CSSB 312 by Minjarez (page 55, prefiled amendment packet) on page 7, between lines 18 and 19, by inserting the following:

SECTION ____.  Section 228.057, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:

(i)  The department may not issue or renew a transponder or authorize another person to sell a transponder to a person unless the department or the person authorized to sell the transponder first verifies that the person to whom the transponder is being issued, renewed, or sold has established financial responsibility under Section 601.051.