82R7385 NAJ-D
 
  By: Brown H.B. No. 1068
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the number of license plates to be issued for and
  displayed on a motor vehicle.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.   Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 502.010 to read as follows:
         Sec. 502.010.  ISSUANCE AND DISPLAY OF LICENSE PLATE.  (a)
  Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, including
  Section 502.180, the department shall issue only one license plate
  for attachment at the rear of the vehicle for which the plate is
  issued.
         (b)  Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary,
  including Section 502.404(a), a person is entitled to operate on a
  public highway a vehicle that displays only one license plate if the
  plate is attached at the rear of the vehicle.  A person may operate
  on a public highway a vehicle that displays two license plates if
  both plates were assigned by the department for the registration
  period as a set of plates.
         (c)  In any provision of this code that relates to the
  issuance or display of "license plates," "plates," or a "set of
  plates," the term means only one license plate.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act regarding the
  issuance of license plates by the Texas Department of Motor
  Vehicles applies only to the issuance of license plates by the
  department for a registration period beginning on or after the
  effective date of this Act. For a registration period that begins
  before the effective date of this Act, the department shall issue
  license plates as required by the law in effect immediately before
  the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.