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From: Mansfield Texas
Front Plate Saw on the news this morning... Looks like Texas is finally going to get rid of the front license plate.. I don't have one just like many of you guys. But will be nice to not always be wondering what cop is going to hand out a ticket for it!!!
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From: Galveston, Tx.
I dont see any discussion on it
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/b...h/criteria.htm
So it is probably not going to happen. I heard that other states that did not require it previously are adopting similiar laws though. Damn shame, I hate that law.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/b...h/criteria.htm
So it is probably not going to happen. I heard that other states that did not require it previously are adopting similiar laws though. Damn shame, I hate that law.
I saw it on our local news in the Golden Triangle area Beaumont TV station. They said that Texas was looking into it because it would save the state about 10 million dollars a year. Sounds great if it really happens.
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From: Beaumont, TX
This would be wonderful 
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=7941
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/...e/11569370.htm
Go bill go!
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=7941
The latest bill to pass the house in Texas will take something away from local drivers to save the state money…but it's something you probably won't miss. It's just one part to a bill that might save the state around $330 million.
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Another portion of this bill might leave your car looking a bit more stylish. The state might put and end to requiring two license plates. Just by taking your front license plate away...the state could save five million dollars a year.
If this portion of the bill passes you could shed your front license plate by September.
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Another portion of this bill might leave your car looking a bit more stylish. The state might put and end to requiring two license plates. Just by taking your front license plate away...the state could save five million dollars a year.
If this portion of the bill passes you could shed your front license plate by September.
Motorists would no longer need a license plate on their front bumpers under a broad-based cost-saving and revenue bill adopted Wednesday by the Texas House of Representatives.
House Bill 3540, by state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, establishes a broad range of new fees and cost-cutting measures. It passed on a 107-37 vote. All told, the legislation would raise nearly $1 billion over the state's two-year budget cycle, according to Pitts, who heads the House Appropriations Committee.
Pitts said the added revenue is needed to balance the state's $66.2 billion budget for the upcoming two years. "It's a great day for Texas -- it helps us fund our budget," Pitts said.
Under one provision, the Texas Department of Transportation would issue motorists a single plate, which would go on the rear of vehicles. Currently, the state issues two license plates that go and the front and back.
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HB 3540 goes up for a final vote in the House today, and then to the Senate.
House Bill 3540, by state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, establishes a broad range of new fees and cost-cutting measures. It passed on a 107-37 vote. All told, the legislation would raise nearly $1 billion over the state's two-year budget cycle, according to Pitts, who heads the House Appropriations Committee.
Pitts said the added revenue is needed to balance the state's $66.2 billion budget for the upcoming two years. "It's a great day for Texas -- it helps us fund our budget," Pitts said.
Under one provision, the Texas Department of Transportation would issue motorists a single plate, which would go on the rear of vehicles. Currently, the state issues two license plates that go and the front and back.
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HB 3540 goes up for a final vote in the House today, and then to the Senate.
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From: Tomball, Tx
I had heard about this actually the other day. They were saying that one other bill had to pass and that this was on the same bill. And the other bill was something that would most likely pass. It was kinda put in on the same bill at the back of the ledger where no one reads. lol.
I believe the bill is that of online lottery or so mething like that, and they just tacked the no front plate thing onto the tail end of it. They can't pick what they do and don't want to pass, they either pass all or none of it. Since the online lottery thing will probably make the state a lot of money, it will most likely pass(or did it alkready?)
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From: Beaumont, TX
I think it's passed in the House and hasn't made it through the Senate yet 
Thanks for the link! Here is the text of Article 9 for people who don't want to dig through that long thing, key parts bolded:
Originally Posted by CAM 00SS
Here is the text of Article 9 for people who don't want to dig through that long thing, key parts bolded:Code:
ARTICLE 9. REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF LICENSE PLATES ISSUED SECTION 9.01. 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 9.02. The change in law made by this article regarding the issuance of license plates by the Texas Department of Transportation applies only to the issuance of license plates by the department for a registration period beginning on or after the effective date of this article. For a registration period that begins before the effective date of this article, the department shall issue license plates as required by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this article, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 9.03. This article takes effect September 1, 2005.
