By: Harper-Brown (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 2874
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013;
  May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 14, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
  May 14, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2874 By:  Hancock
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the designation by the Texas Department of Motor
  Vehicles of the registration year for certain vehicles sold by a
  dealer.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 502.044, Transportation Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  The department shall use the date of sale of the vehicle
  in designating the registration year for a vehicle for which
  registration is applied for under Section 501.0234.
         SECTION 2.  Section 502.044(e), Transportation Code, as
  added by this Act, applies only to a vehicle registered on or after
  the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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