By:  Parra                                            H.B. No. 2576
       73R6436 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration of certain motor vehicles.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5(c), Chapter 3, Acts of the 43rd
    1-5  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1934 (Article 6675a-3e, Vernon's
    1-6  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The symbol, tab, or device required by Subsection (b) of
    1-8  this section shall be three inches in height and seven inches in
    1-9  width and attached to the inside of the vehicle's rear window
   1-10  <windshield>, if the vehicle is equipped with a rear window
   1-11  <windshield, directly above the place where the motor vehicle
   1-12  inspection sticker is required to be placed>.  If the vehicle has
   1-13  no rear window <windshield>, the person who operates the vehicle
   1-14  shall, upon application for, or renewal of, the vehicle
   1-15  registration, notify the department, whereby the department shall
   1-16  issue a distinctive symbol, tab, or other device for attachment to
   1-17  the rear license plate of the vehicle.  License plates may be
   1-18  purchased during the month preceding the date on which the
   1-19  registration expires.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Section 4, Chapter 765, Acts of the 72nd
   1-21  Legislature, Regular Session, 1991, is repealed.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.  The
   1-23  change in law made by this Act applies only to an application to
   1-24  register a motor vehicle or to renew the registration of a motor
    2-1  vehicle that is made on or after that date.
    2-2        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.