Eight months after Texas officially replaced temporary paper tags with metal plates, law enforcement officials say the move ...

Texas officials spent years trying to choke off a booming trade in bogus paper temporary tags. The state finally killed most paper plates in favor of metal last summer, promising clearer roads and ...

Last year, Texas banned temporary paper tags in an effort to thwart counterfeit license plates. Unfortunately that effort has proven less than successful, as counterfeiters have simply started making ...

Texas will soon say goodbye to temporary paper license plates thanks to a new state law. Temporary paper license plates are issued on vehicles purchased from licensed Texas dealers during the title ...

Texas officials are continuing to confront widespread use of fraudulent license plates months after the state eliminated paper temporary tags, a move intended to curb abuse that had made Texas a ...

Since the beginning of July 2025, most Texas temporary paper license plates have been replaced by new metal plates with colored stripes to indicate their purpose. This was done to help prevent fraud ...