Bill Text: TX SB970 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on replacing buyer's temporary tags with permanent license plates.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Co-author authorized [SB970 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB970-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 970 | |
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| relating to a study and report by the Texas A&M Transportation | ||
| Institute on replacing buyer's temporary tags with permanent | ||
| license plates. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "buyer's temporary | ||
| tag" means a buyer's temporary tag issued under Section 503.063, | ||
| Transportation Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. STUDY AND REPORT. (a) The Texas A&M | ||
| Transportation Institute shall conduct a study on replacing buyer's | ||
| temporary tags with permanent license plates. | ||
| (b) The study must: | ||
| (1) evaluate the feasibility of authorizing: | ||
| (A) a dealer to issue permanent license plates to | ||
| a buyer at the time of the sale of a motor vehicle, including for a | ||
| vehicle sale taking place on the Internet; and | ||
| (B) the use of license plates issued at the | ||
| initial retail sale of a motor vehicle in this state by the initial | ||
| owner and all subsequent owners of the vehicle for the life of the | ||
| vehicle in this state; and | ||
| (2) estimate the financial and any other benefits to | ||
| this state of the proposals described in Subdivision (1) of this | ||
| subsection, including any anticipated reduction in: | ||
| (A) fraud related to the current system for | ||
| issuing buyer's temporary tags; and | ||
| (B) costs to all levels of government in this | ||
| state of: | ||
| (i) the current system for issuing buyer's | ||
| temporary tags; and | ||
| (ii) the current requirement that new | ||
| permanent license plates be issued for a motor vehicle for each | ||
| retail sale of the vehicle. | ||
| (c) Not later than November 1, 2024, the Texas A&M | ||
| Transportation Institute shall submit to the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, and the legislature a report on the results of | ||
| the study conducted under this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. EXPIRATION. This Act expires January 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September | ||
| 1, 2023. | ||
