By: Bomer H.B. No. 641
73R802 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to issuance of prisoner of war license plates.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 5g(a), (b), and (f), Chapter 88, General
1-5 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-6 (Article 6675a-5g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) Any person, other than a person discharged from the
1-9 armed forces under conditions less than honorable, who was captured
1-10 and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States during a period
1-11 of conflict with the United States, or the surviving spouse of that
1-12 person, as long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried, is
1-13 entitled to register under this Section, for the person's own use,
1-14 one (1) passenger car or light commercial vehicle having a
1-15 manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one (1) ton or less,
1-16 without payment of the annual registration fee for the vehicle.
1-17 (b) The Department shall design and provide for the issuance
1-18 of special license plates for persons entitled to register under
1-19 this Section. The license plates shall be designed to indicate
1-20 that the recipient is, or the recipient's deceased spouse was, a
1-21 former prisoner of war.
1-22 (f) <The surviving spouse of a deceased person who was
1-23 issued license plates under this Section is entitled to continue to
1-24 register one (1) motor vehicle under this Section for as long as
2-1 the spouse remains unmarried.> When a surviving <the> spouse
2-2 applies to renew a registration under this Section, the County Tax
2-3 Collector shall require the spouse to make a sworn statement that
2-4 the spouse is unmarried.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.