By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 323
       73R4365 JD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of special license plates for certain
    1-3  vehicles to be operated by or for the transportation of disabled
    1-4  persons.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 4, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th
    1-7  Legislature, Regular Session, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's
    1-8  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 4.  Special license plates shall be issued for
   1-10  motorcycles, <with side cars that have been specifically modified
   1-11  by the manufacturer to be operated by disabled persons and>
   1-12  passenger vehicles, and light commercial vehicles having a
   1-13  manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one ton or less operated
   1-14  by or for the transportation of permanently disabled persons for
   1-15  noncommercial use.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.