Bill > HB3927

This bill amends the Texas Transportation Code to: 1. Require the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (the Department) to develop, manage, and maintain a secure, real-time database of information on vehicles to which dealers and converters have affixed temporary tags. The bill also allows the Department to deny access to this database to dealers or converters found to be fraudulently obtaining temporary tags. 2. Allow vehicles purchased by out-of-state buyers or at public auction to display a temporary buyer's tag without satisfying certain vehicle inspection requirements. 3. Authorize the Department to establish the maximum number of temporary tags a dealer or converter may obtain in a calendar year, based on factors like the dealer's or converter's time in operation, sales data, and expected growth. The bill also allows the Department to authorize additional temporary tags if the dealer or converter demonstrates a need. 4. Expand the prohibition on operating a vehicle with an unauthorized temporary tag and on selling or distributing temporary tags. The changes in this bill apply only to offenses committed on or after the effective date of September 1, 2021.

Transportation and Infrastructure

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