1-1 By: Bomer (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 641
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 11, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to issuance of prisoner of war license plates.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Sections 5g(a), (b), and (f), Chapter 88, General
1-26 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-27 (Article 6675a-5g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
1-28 read as follows:
1-29 (a) Any person, other than a person discharged from the
1-30 armed forces under conditions less than honorable, who was captured
1-31 and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States during a period
1-32 of conflict with the United States, or the surviving spouse of that
1-33 person, as long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried, is
1-34 entitled to register under this Section, for the person's own use,
1-35 one (1) passenger car or light commercial vehicle having a
1-36 manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one (1) ton or less,
1-37 without payment of the annual registration fee for the vehicle.
1-38 (b) The Department shall design and provide for the issuance
1-39 of special license plates for persons entitled to register under
1-40 this Section. The license plates shall be designed to indicate
1-41 that the recipient is, or the recipient's deceased spouse was, a
1-42 former prisoner of war.
1-43 (f) <The surviving spouse of a deceased person who was
1-44 issued license plates under this Section is entitled to continue to
1-45 register one (1) motor vehicle under this Section for as long as
1-46 the spouse remains unmarried.> When a surviving <the> spouse
1-47 applies to renew a registration under this Section, the County Tax
1-48 Collector shall require the spouse to make a sworn statement that
1-49 the spouse is unmarried.
1-50 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-55 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-56 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 Austin,
1-59 Texas
1-60 May 21, 1993
1-61 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-62 President of the Senate
1-63 Sir:
1-64 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-65 No. 641, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-66 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-67 pass and be printed.
1-68 Rosson,
2-1 Vice-Chairman
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2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 FOR AGAINST ON
2-5 ___________________________________________________________________
2-6 Name: Samuel Bier x
2-7 Representing: VFW, ET AL
2-8 City: Austin
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