By Pickett H.B. No. 1819
76R6343 WP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring new license plates for vehicles every five
1-3 years.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.180(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The department shall issue a new [only one] license
1-8 plate or set of plates for a vehicle at least once every five years
1-9 [during a five-year period]. A license plate or set of plates may
1-10 not be used on a vehicle for a period exceeding five years.
1-11 SECTION 2. The Texas Department of Transportation by rule
1-12 shall provide for the staggered expiration of license plates under
1-13 Chapter 502, Transportation Code, so that a proportionate number of
1-14 license plates expire each year. The fee for a license plate or
1-15 set of plates issued for a period other than the period provided by
1-16 that chapter shall be prorated accordingly.
1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.