By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Flores) H.B. No. 3068
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of certain license plates on classic motor
vehicles and travel trailers, custom vehicles, street rods, and
certain exhibition vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 504.202, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) A person entitled to license plates under this section
may instead use, for a vehicle that meets the requirements of
Section 504.501 or 504.502, disabled veteran license plates issued
by this state that are:
(1) embossed with an alphanumeric pattern;
(2) of a plate design that was issued in the same year
as the model year of the vehicle; and
(3) approved for use by the department.
SECTION 2. Section 504.501, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
follows:
(b) A person eligible for the license plates may instead use
license plates that are:
(1) embossed with an alphanumeric pattern;
(2) of a plate design that was [were] issued by this
state in the same year as the model year of the vehicle; and
(3) [are] approved for use by the department.
(b-1) The department may require the attachment of a
registration insignia to a [the] license plate described by
Subsection (b) in a manner that does not affect the display of
information originally on the license plate.
SECTION 3. Section 504.502, Transportation Code, is amended
by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(c) A person eligible for the license plates may instead use
license plates that are:
(1) embossed with an alphanumeric pattern;
(2) of a plate design that was issued by this state in
the same year as the model year of the vehicle [and approved by the
department], provided that a passenger car must bear passenger car
or truck license plates and a truck must bear passenger car or truck
license plates; and
(3) approved for use by the department.
(c-1) The department may require attachment of a
registration insignia to a [the] license plate described by
Subsection (c) in a manner that does not affect the display of
information originally on the license plate.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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