S.B. No. 323
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the issuance of special license plates for certain
    1-2  vehicles to be operated by or for the transportation of disabled
    1-3  persons.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 4, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th
    1-6  Legislature, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-7  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 4.  Special license plates shall be issued for
    1-9  motorcycles, <with side cars that have been specifically modified
   1-10  by the manufacturer to be operated by disabled persons and>
   1-11  passenger vehicles, and light commercial vehicles having a
   1-12  manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one ton or less operated
   1-13  by or for the transportation of permanently disabled persons for
   1-14  noncommercial use.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.