A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	
AN ACT
	relating to the number of license plates to be issued for and
	displayed on a motor vehicle.
	       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	       SECTION 1.   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 2.  The change in law made by this Act 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 Act. For a registration period that begins
	before the effective date of this Act, the department shall issue
	license plates as required by the law in effect immediately before
	the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

Texas Transportation Code
§ 502.404. OPERATION OF VEHICLE WITHOUT LICENSE PLATE OR 
REGISTRATION INSIGNIA.  
(a) A person commits an offense if the 
person operates on a public highway during a registration period a 
passenger car or commercial motor vehicle that does not display two 
license plates, at the front and rear of the vehicle.

(18)  "Public highway" includes a road, street, way,  thoroughfare, or bridge:
 (A)  that is in this state;                                                  
 (B)  that is for the use of vehicles;                                        
 (C)  that is not privately owned or controlled;  and                       
 (D)  over which the state has legislative jurisdiction under its police power.