By Goolsby H.B. No. 2630
74R7952 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 attached to the <inside of the vehicle's
1-9 windshield, if the vehicle is equipped with a windshield, directly
1-10 above the place where the motor vehicle inspection sticker is
1-11 required to be placed. If the vehicle has no windshield, the
1-12 person who operates the vehicle shall, upon application for, or
1-13 renewal of, the vehicle registration, notify the department,
1-14 whereby the department shall issue a distinctive symbol, tab, or
1-15 other device for attachment to the> rear license plate of the
1-16 vehicle. License plates may be purchased during the month
1-17 preceding the date on which the registration expires.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-19 applies only to motor vehicle registrations and the validation of
1-20 motor vehicle registrations issued for registration years ending
1-21 after December 31, 1996. The display of the validation of
1-22 registrations issued for registration years before that date is
1-23 governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
1-24 of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-1 purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. 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.