By: Krause H.B. No. 3221
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of certain license plates and tags.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 503.061, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 503.061. DEALER'S LICENSE PLATES. (a) Instead of
registering under Chapter 502 a vehicle that the dealer owns,
operates, or permits to be operated on a public street or highway,
the dealer may apply for, receive, and attach metal dealer's
license plates, including specialty plates issued in accordance
with Chapter 504, Subchapter J, Transportation Code, to the vehicle
if it is the type of vehicle:
(1) that the dealer sells; and
(2) for which the dealer has been issued a general
distinguishing number.
(b) The board may adopt rules regulating the issuance and
use of a license plate issued pursuant to the terms of this section.
SECTION 2. Section 503.615, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 503.0615. PERSONALIZED PRESTIGE DEALER'S LICENSE
PLATES. (a) The department shall establish and issue personalized
prestige dealer's license plates. The department may not issue
identically lettered or numbered dealer's plates to more than one
dealer.
(b) The department shall establish procedures for
continuous application for and issuance of personalized prestige
dealer's license plates. A dealer must make a new application and
pay a new fee for each registration period for which the dealer
seeks to obtain personalized prestige dealer's license plates. A
dealer who obtains personalized prestige dealer's license plates
has first priority on those plates for each subsequent registration
period for which the dealer applies.
(c) The annual fee for personalized prestige dealer's
license plates is $40, in addition to any fee otherwise prescribed
by this chapter.
(d) The department may issue to an applicant only one set of
personalized prestige dealer's license plates for a vehicle for a
six-year period. The department may issue a new set of personalized
prestige dealer's license plates within the six-year period if the
applicant pays a fee of $50 in addition to the fees required by
Subsection (c).
(e) On application and payment of the required fee for a
registration period following the issuance of the plates, the
department shall issue a registration insignia.
(f) Of each fee collected by the department under this
section:
(1) $1.25 shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas
Department of Motor Vehicles fund to defray the cost of
administering this section; and
(2) the remainder shall be deposited to the credit of
the general revenue fund.
(g) For purposes of this section, "personalized prestige
dealer license plate(s)" shall include three specialty plate
designs, as designated by the private vendor, authorized and issued
in accordance with Chapter 504, Subchapter J, Transportation Code.
Section 3. Section 504.401, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 504.401. STATE OFFICIALS. (a) The department shall
issue specialty license plates to a state official.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296, Sec.
247(11), eff. January 1, 2012.
(c) The registration remains valid until December 31 of each
year.
(d) In this section, "state official" means:
(1) a member of the legislature;
(2) the governor;
(3) the lieutenant governor;
(4) a justice of the supreme court;
(5) a judge of the court of criminal appeals;
(6) the attorney general;
(7) the commissioner of the General Land Office;
(8) the comptroller;
(9) a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas;
(10) the commissioner of agriculture;
(11) the secretary of state; or
(12) a member of the State Board of Education.
(e) For purposes of this section, "specialty license
plates" shall include plate designs authorized and issued in
accordance with Chapter 504, Subchapter J, Transportation Code.
Section 4. This Act takes effect on September 1, 2019.