By Hupp H.B. No. 535 76R2716 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the number of license plates to be issued for and 1-3 displayed on a motor vehicle. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 502.010 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 502.010. ISSUANCE AND DISPLAY OF LICENSE PLATE. (a) 1-8 Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, including 1-9 Section 502.180, the department shall issue only one license plate 1-10 for attachment at the rear of the vehicle for which the plate is 1-11 issued. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the 1-13 contrary, including Section 502.404(a), a person is entitled to 1-14 operate on a public highway a vehicle that displays only one 1-15 license plate if the plate is attached at the rear of the vehicle. 1-16 (c) In any provision of this chapter that relates to the 1-17 issuance or display of "license plates," "plates," or a "set of 1-18 plates," the term means only one license plate. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The 1-20 change in law made by this Act relating to the display of license 1-21 plates on a motor vehicle that is operated on a public highway 1-22 applies only to the operation of a motor vehicle on a public 1-23 highway on or after September 1, 1999. The display of license 1-24 plates on a motor vehicle before September 1, 1999, is covered by 2-1 the law in effect when the vehicle was operated and the former law 2-2 is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.