Tex. Transp. Code § 504.403 · Subchapter E. SPECIALTY LICENSE PLATES WITH RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION
STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for a current or visiting state or federal judge. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the license plates must include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge," as appropriate.
(b) A person entitled to license plates under this section may elect to receive license plates that do not include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge."
(c) In this section, "state judge" means:
(1) a justice of the supreme court;
(2) a judge of the court of criminal appeals;
(3) a judge of a court of appeals of this state;
(4) a district court judge;
(5) a presiding judge of an administrative judicial district; or
(6) a statutory county court judge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1320, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1290 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 44(a)(4), eff. September 1, 2011.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 187, eff. January 1, 2012.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 188, eff. January 1, 2012.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 247(13), eff. January 1, 2012.
Reenacted and amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 296 (S.B. 2141), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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