By:  Cuellar, Renato                                   H.B. No. 106
       73R1135 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of a sticker showing the license plate
    1-3  letters, numbers, and symbols of a motor vehicle.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
    1-6  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et seq.,
    1-7  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 13-3/4
    1-8  to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 13-3/4.  (a)  The Department shall issue a sticker for
   1-10  each motor vehicle registered in this State showing the license
   1-11  plate letters, numbers, and symbols assigned to the vehicle.  The
   1-12  owner of the motor vehicle shall affix the sticker to a window of
   1-13  the vehicle in the manner prescribed by the Department.
   1-14        (b)  The Department shall issue a sticker on initial
   1-15  registration of a motor vehicle in this State and on any subsequent
   1-16  registration in which the vehicle's license plate letters, numbers,
   1-17  or symbols are changed.
   1-18        (c)  If a sticker issued under this section is lost, stolen,
   1-19  or mutilated, the owner of the vehicle for which the sticker was
   1-20  issued may obtain a replacement sticker from the Department by
   1-21  paying a replacement fee of Two Dollars ($2.00).
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  The
   1-23  Texas Department of  Transportation shall prepare the stickers
   1-24  required by this Act and issue the stickers for registration
    2-1  periods beginning on or after January 1, 1994.  Notwithstanding
    2-2  Section 13-3/4(b), Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
    2-3  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-13-3/4,
    2-4  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by this Act, the
    2-5  department shall issue a sticker for each motor vehicle
    2-6  registration renewed in a registration period in 1994.  The owner
    2-7  of a vehicle is not required to have a sticker affixed for a
    2-8  registration before the end of the applicable registration period
    2-9  in 1994.
   2-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.