1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the offense of operation of a vehicle with an expired 1-3 license plate. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.407(a), Transportation Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if, after the fifth working 1-8 day after the date the registration for the vehicle expires: 1-9 (1) the person operates on a public highway during a 1-10 registration period a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that 1-11 has attached to it a license plate for the preceding period; and 1-12 (2) the license plate has not been validated by the 1-13 attachment of a registration insignia for the registration period 1-14 in effect. 1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense 1-17 committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes 1-18 of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date 1-19 of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 1-20 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-21 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-22 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 924 was passed by the House on April 8, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 924 was passed by the Senate on May 10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor