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.