By Uher H.B. No. 1616 76R6556 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the issuance of volunteer firefighter license plates. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 502.268(a), Transportation Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license 1-7 plates for passenger cars and light trucks owned by volunteer 1-8 firefighters certified by: 1-9 (1) the Texas Commission on Fire Protection; or 1-10 (2) the State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association 1-11 of Texas. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.