By Madden                                       H.B. No. 2976

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the appearance of a license plate issued by the state.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 502.409, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-5     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

 1-6           (f)  It is not an offense under this section to attach a

 1-7     decal to a license plate issued by the state if the decal does not

 1-8     obscure the letters, numbers, or other identification marks on the

 1-9     license plate.

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.