Bill Text: TX HB1778 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to certain professional sports teams.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1778-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1778 | ||
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| relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to certain | ||
| professional sports teams. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 504.614(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The department may issue specialty license plates that | ||
| include the name and insignia of a professional sports team located | ||
| in this state. The department shall design the license plates in | ||
| consultation with the professional sports team and may enter a | ||
| trademark license with the professional sports team or its league | ||
| to implement this section. A license plate may be issued under this | ||
| section only for a professional sports team that: | ||
| (1) certifies to the department that the requirements | ||
| of Section 504.702 are met; and | ||
| (2) plays its home games in a facility: | ||
| (A) constructed or operated, in whole or in part, | ||
| with public funds; or | ||
| (B) owned, in whole or in part, by a public | ||
| entity. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 504.614(c)(2), Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (2) "Professional sports team" means a sports team | ||
| that is a member or an affiliate of a member of the National | ||
| Football League, National Basketball Association, [ |
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| Hockey League, Major League Soccer, or a major league baseball | ||
| team. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1778 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 21, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1778 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
