Bill Text: TX SB1560 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1560 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the offense of operating certain vehicles without a license plate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Scheduled for formal meeting on . . . [SB1560 Detail]

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	By: Taylor of Galveston	S.B. No. 1560
	(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2017; March 21, 2017, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
	April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
	Nays 0; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the offense of operating certain vehicles without a
	license plate.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 504.943, Transportation Code, is amended
	by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
	follows:
	(b) A person commits an offense if the person operates on a
	public highway during a registration period a road tractor, a
	motorcycle, a trailer, a [or] semitrailer, or a motor vehicle
	equipped by the manufacturer with not more than one area to display
	a license plate that does not display a license plate that:
	(1) has been assigned by the department for the
	period; and
	(2) complies with department rules regarding the
	placement of license plates.
	(b-1) In this section, "area to display a license plate"
	means a feature of the exterior front or rear of a motor vehicle to
	which a person can fasten a license plate as required by rules
	regarding the placement of license plates adopted by the board
	under Section 504.010(c). The term does not include a feature if a
	person can only fasten a license plate to the feature after drilling
	through the exterior of the vehicle.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
	purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
	effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
	before that date.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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