H.B. No. 176
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of specially designed license plates for
1-3 vehicles owned by certain veterans of military service and
1-4 surviving spouses of certain veterans.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 5k(g), Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of
1-7 the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-5k,
1-8 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-9 (g) A vehicle for which Pearl Harbor license plates or<,>
1-10 Purple Heart license plates are issued under this section is exempt
1-11 from the motor vehicle registration fee imposed by Section 5 of
1-12 this Act and any additional county fee imposed under Section 9a of
1-13 this Act.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 5k(n), Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of
1-15 the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-5k,
1-16 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed.
1-17 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act in the fees
1-18 required for the issuance of certain license plates applies only to
1-19 fees for the issuance or renewal of license plates on or after the
1-20 effective date of this Act.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.