1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Bernsen) H.B. No. 1616 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999; 1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the issuance of volunteer firefighter license plates. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 502.268(a), Transportation Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license 1-13 plates for passenger cars and light trucks owned by volunteer 1-14 firefighters certified by: 1-15 (1) the Texas Commission on Fire Protection; or 1-16 (2) the State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association 1-17 of Texas. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-24 * * * * *