1-1 By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 924 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the offense of operation of a vehicle with an expired 1-9 license plate. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 502.407(a), Transportation Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (a) A person commits an offense if, after the fifth working 1-14 day after the date the registration for the vehicle expires: 1-15 (1) the person operates on a public highway during a 1-16 registration period a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that 1-17 has attached to it a license plate for the preceding period; and 1-18 (2) the license plate has not been validated by the 1-19 attachment of a registration insignia for the registration period 1-20 in effect. 1-21 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense 1-23 committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes 1-24 of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date 1-25 of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 1-26 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-27 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-28 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *