1-1  By:  Wentworth, Shelley                                S.B. No. 323
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 1993; February 15, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  March 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 1, 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 the issuance of special license plates for certain
   1-24  vehicles to be operated by or for the transportation of disabled
   1-25  persons.
   1-26        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-27        SECTION 1.  Section 4, Chapter 338, Acts of the 64th
   1-28  Legislature, 1975 (Article 6675a-5e.1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-29  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-30        Sec. 4.  Special license plates shall be issued for
   1-31  motorcycles, <with side cars that have been specifically modified
   1-32  by the manufacturer to be operated by disabled persons and>
   1-33  passenger vehicles, and light commercial vehicles having a
   1-34  manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of one ton or less operated
   1-35  by or for the transportation of permanently disabled persons for
   1-36  noncommercial use.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-42  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-43  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-45                                                         Austin,
   1-46  Texas
   1-47                                                         March 1, 1993
   1-48  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-49  President of the Senate
   1-50  Sir:
   1-51  We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B.
   1-52  No. 323, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-53  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-54  pass and be printed.
   1-55                                                         Harris of
   1-56  Dallas, Chairman
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   1-58                               WITNESSES
   1-59                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-60  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-61  Name:  Chris Gunn                                x
   1-62  Representing:  Self
   1-63  City:  Houston
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   1-65  Name:  Karen Johnson                             x
   1-66  Representing:  TX. Good Roads Association
   1-67  City:  Austin
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    2-1  Name:  Tony Reda                                               x
    2-2  Representing:  TX. Dept of Transportation
    2-3  City:  Austin
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    2-5  Name:  Becky Beck                                              x
    2-6  Representing:  TX. Dept of Trans
    2-7  City:  Austin
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