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      By Walker                                       H.B. No. 3220

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the identification of a motor vehicle that is issued

 1-3     exempt license plates.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 3aa, Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of

 1-6     the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-3aa,

 1-7     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (g)

 1-8     to read as follows:

 1-9           (g)(1)  The Department is prohibited from issuing exempt

1-10     license plates for a vehicle that is owned by the United States,

1-11     this state, or a political subdivision of this state unless when

1-12     application is made for registration of the vehicle, the person who

1-13     under Section 3(c) of this Act has proper authority to certify to

1-14     the department that the vehicle qualifies for registration under

1-15     that section also certifies in writing to the Department that there

1-16     is printed on each side of the vehicle, in letters that are at

1-17     least two inches high or an emblem not less than 100 square inches

1-18     in size and of a color sufficiently different from the body of the

1-19     vehicle to be clearly legible from a distance of 100 feet, the name

1-20     of the agency, department, bureau, board, commission, or officer of

1-21     the United States, this state or political subdivision of this

1-22     state that has custody of that vehicle.

1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses creates an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.