AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the fees for transferring license plates for disabled

 1-2     veterans.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Section 502.254, Transportation

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (g)  After a license plate becomes invalid under Subsection

 1-7     (f), the owner may qualify for another set of license plates under

 1-8     this section.  If the plate is cancelled under Subsection (f)(1),

 1-9     the owner may then register another vehicle under this section

1-10     without charge.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 303 passed the Senate on

         February 13, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 303 passed the House on

         May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor