AUSTIN (KXAN) — After raising concerns publicly for weeks over a new law that will eliminate temporary paper license plates next year — tied to widespread fraud and crime — only KXAN was there when a group representing 1,400 car dealerships came face-to-face at the Capitol with law enforcement who backed the bill.
“I’m not going to talk to you,” Texas Automobile Dealers Association (TADA) Executive Vice President Karen Phillips told KXAN after leaving the closed-door meeting at the office of Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, on Thursday.
The meeting was set by Canales, who chairs the House Transportation Committee, after Phillips urged lawmakers last month to take another look at House Bill 718 . The law is set to replace temporary paper license plates with metal ones in July.
“I would encourage you to look at these issues as to whether we’ve gone forward and not backwards,” she told the committee on Oct. 10.
