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.
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