---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to wrong, fictitious, altered, or obscured license plates; increasing a criminal penalty."
description: "Relating to wrong, fictitious, altered, or obscured license plates; increasing a criminal penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "HB 2195"
citation: "Texas HB 2195 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200)", "LICENSE PLATES (S9823)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)", "Vehicles & Traffic--Vehicle Registration (I0845)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Noble", "Parker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 49
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c1b3393-23c8-4060-9c18-41b58a730b7d"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/house_bills/HB02100_HB02199/HB 2195.xml"
source_hash: "602f04ee8ac0e908062f54138506ef943823003c61c0eb4f76357cf0c0555c86"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas HB 2195 (88) — Relating to wrong, fictitious, altered, or obscured license plates; increasing a criminal penalty.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02195I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02195E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02195H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02195S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02195F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **145–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Noble — primary (person)
- Parker — primary (person)
- Orr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-09** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-05** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-04-05** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2023-04-05** Left pending in committee
- **2023-04-12** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-04-12** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-04-12** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-04-18** Committee report distributed
- **2023-04-19** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2023-04-20** Considered in Calendars
- **2023-04-26** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Passed to engrossment
- **2023-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-27** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-27** Record vote
- **2023-04-27** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-27** Reported engrossed
- **2023-05-01** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2023-05-02** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-05-10** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-05-10** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-05-11** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-05-11** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-05-16** Placed on intent calendar
- **2023-05-17** Not again placed on intent calendar
- **2023-05-17** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-05-17** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-05-17** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-17** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-17** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-17** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** Senate passage reported `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-19** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-21** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-22** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-09** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-09** Effective on 9/1/23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c1b3393-23c8-4060-9c18-41b58a730b7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).