73R9304 DWS-D
By Saunders H.B. No. 751
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 751:
By Bosse C.S.H.B. No. 751
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to special license plates relating to the armed forces.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 5k(a), (b), and (f), Chapter 88, General
1-5 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-6 (Article 6675a-5k, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) The department shall design and provide for the issuance
1-9 of special license plates depicting the state capitol for passenger
1-10 cars and light commercial motor vehicles having a manufacturer's
1-11 rated carrying capacity of one ton or less and shall design and
1-12 provide for the issuance of special license plates for those
1-13 vehicles that are owned by persons who are:
1-14 (1) active or retired members of a branch of the armed
1-15 forces of the United States;
1-16 (2) the surviving spouses of individuals killed in
1-17 action while serving in the armed forces of the United States, as
1-18 long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried;
1-19 (3) survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor on
1-20 December 7, 1941, or their surviving spouses who have not
1-21 remarried;
1-22 (4) recipients of the Purple Heart medal or
1-23 recipients' surviving spouses who have not remarried;
1-24 (5) members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary,
2-1 Civil Air Patrol, members of the United States Coast Guard
2-2 Auxiliary;
2-3 (6) persons who served in a branch of the armed forces
2-4 of the United States after August 4, 1964, and before May 8, 1975;
2-5 <or>
2-6 (7) persons who served in a branch of the armed forces
2-7 of the United States, were deployed to the Middle East, and there
2-8 participated in Operation Desert Shield or Desert Storm; or
2-9 (8) honorably discharged veterans of a branch of the
2-10 armed forces of the United States.
2-11 (b) License plates issued to an active or retired <a> member
2-12 of a branch of the armed forces, or to the individual's surviving
2-13 spouse as provided by Subsection (a)(2) of this section, shall bear
2-14 the designation of the appropriate branch of the armed forces.
2-15 License plates issued to an honorably discharged veteran of a
2-16 branch of the armed forces shall bear the word "Veteran." License
2-17 plates issued to Pearl Harbor survivors or their surviving spouses
2-18 who have not remarried shall bear the words "Pearl Harbor Survivor"
2-19 and shall be numbered consecutively. License plates issued to
2-20 recipients, or surviving spouses of recipients, of the Purple Heart
2-21 medal shall bear the Purple Heart emblem, shall bear the words
2-22 "Purple Heart" at the bottom of each plate, and if numbered plates
2-23 are issued, shall bear the letters "PH" as the prefix or suffix to
2-24 the assigned number. License plates issued to members of the civil
2-25 air patrol shall bear the words "Texas Wing Civil Air Patrol."
2-26 License plates issued to members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary shall
2-27 bear the words "Coast Guard Auxiliary." License plates issued to
3-1 persons who served in a branch of the armed forces of the United
3-2 States after August 4, 1964, and before May 8, 1975, shall bear the
3-3 words "Vietnam Veteran." License plates issued to persons who
3-4 served in a branch of the armed forces of the United States, were
3-5 deployed to the Middle East, and there participated in Operation
3-6 Desert Shield or Desert Storm shall bear the words "Desert Storm."
3-7 (f) The fee for issuance of special license plates under
3-8 this section, other than license plates depicting the capitol,
3-9 Purple Heart license plates, <and> Pearl Harbor license plates, and
3-10 honorably discharged veteran plates, is $10 a year. The fee for
3-11 Purple Heart license plates and Pearl Harbor license plates is $3 a
3-12 year. The fee for license plates depicting the capitol is $30 a
3-13 year. The fee for honorably discharged veteran plates is $10, due
3-14 when the license plates are initially issued. Except as provided
3-15 by Subsection (g) of this section, a fee imposed under this
3-16 subsection is in addition to the motor vehicle registration fee
3-17 imposed by Section 5 of this Act, and if personalized prestige
3-18 license plates are issued, in addition to the fee imposed by
3-19 Section 5c of this Act.
3-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
3-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.