Blackout license plates available for purchase starting on July 1, 2025 by: Matthew Self Posted: May 12, 2025 / 11:36 AM CDT Updated: May 12, 2025 / 11:37 AM CDT ...

For an extra $25 fee she decided to get the state’s reissued black license plates, with white lettering. “I thought it was retro,” she told CPR News.

HOUSTON — Starting Tuesday, July 1, paper license plates will officially become a thing of the past in Texas. That’s when House Bill 718, a law passed two years ago and signed by Gov. Greg ...