By Wohlgemuth H.B. No. 1127
76R3943 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to persons eligible to receive a license plate honoring
1-3 peace officers killed in the line of duty.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.289(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license
1-8 [licensed] plates for a vehicle owned by:
1-9 (1) a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace
1-10 officer; or
1-11 (2) a surviving spouse, parent, brother, sister, or
1-12 adult child, including an adopted child or stepchild, of a person
1-13 killed in the line of duty as a peace officer.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.