1-1 By: Saunders (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 751
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1993;
1-3 May 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 28, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to special license plates relating to the armed forces.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Sections 5k(a), (b), and (f), Chapter 88, General
1-26 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-27 (Article 6675a-5k, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
1-28 read as follows:
1-29 (a) The department shall design and provide for the issuance
1-30 of special license plates depicting the state capitol for passenger
1-31 cars and light commercial motor vehicles having a manufacturer's
1-32 rated carrying capacity of one ton or less and shall design and
1-33 provide for the issuance of special license plates for those
1-34 vehicles that are owned by persons who are:
1-35 (1) active or retired members of a branch of the armed
1-36 forces of the United States;
1-37 (2) the surviving spouses of individuals killed in
1-38 action while serving in the armed forces of the United States, as
1-39 long as the surviving spouse remains unmarried;
1-40 (3) survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor on
1-41 December 7, 1941, or their surviving spouses who have not
1-42 remarried;
1-43 (4) recipients of the Purple Heart medal or
1-44 recipients' surviving spouses who have not remarried;
1-45 (5) members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary,
1-46 Civil Air Patrol, members of the United States Coast Guard
1-47 Auxiliary;
1-48 (6) persons who served in a branch of the armed forces
1-49 of the United States after August 4, 1964, and before May 8, 1975;
1-50 <or>
1-51 (7) persons who served in a branch of the armed forces
1-52 of the United States, were deployed to the Middle East, and there
1-53 participated in Operation Desert Shield or Desert Storm; or
1-54 (8) honorably discharged veterans of a branch of the
1-55 armed forces of the United States.
1-56 (b) License plates issued to an active or retired <a> member
1-57 of a branch of the armed forces, or to the individual's surviving
1-58 spouse as provided by Subsection (a)(2) of this section, shall bear
1-59 the designation of the appropriate branch of the armed forces.
1-60 License plates issued to an honorably discharged veteran of a
1-61 branch of the armed forces shall bear the word "Veteran." License
1-62 plates issued to Pearl Harbor survivors or their surviving spouses
1-63 who have not remarried shall bear the words "Pearl Harbor Survivor"
1-64 and shall be numbered consecutively. License plates issued to
1-65 recipients, or surviving spouses of recipients, of the Purple Heart
1-66 medal shall bear the Purple Heart emblem, shall bear the words
1-67 "Purple Heart" at the bottom of each plate, and if numbered plates
1-68 are issued, shall bear the letters "PH" as the prefix or suffix to
2-1 the assigned number. License plates issued to members of the civil
2-2 air patrol shall bear the words "Texas Wing Civil Air Patrol."
2-3 License plates issued to members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary shall
2-4 bear the words "Coast Guard Auxiliary." License plates issued to
2-5 persons who served in a branch of the armed forces of the United
2-6 States after August 4, 1964, and before May 8, 1975, shall bear the
2-7 words "Vietnam Veteran." License plates issued to persons who
2-8 served in a branch of the armed forces of the United States, were
2-9 deployed to the Middle East, and there participated in Operation
2-10 Desert Shield or Desert Storm shall bear the words "Desert Storm."
2-11 (f) The fee for issuance of special license plates under
2-12 this section, other than license plates depicting the capitol,
2-13 Purple Heart license plates, <and> Pearl Harbor license plates, and
2-14 honorably discharged veteran plates, is $10 a year. The fee for
2-15 Purple Heart license plates and Pearl Harbor license plates is $3 a
2-16 year. The fee for license plates depicting the capitol is $30 a
2-17 year. The fee for honorably discharged veteran plates is $10, due
2-18 when the license plates are initially issued. Except as provided
2-19 by Subsection (g) of this section, a fee imposed under this
2-20 subsection is in addition to the motor vehicle registration fee
2-21 imposed by Section 5 of this Act, and if personalized prestige
2-22 license plates are issued, in addition to the fee imposed by
2-23 Section 5c of this Act.
2-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-30 * * * * *
2-31 Austin,
2-32 Texas
2-33 May 28, 1993
2-34 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-35 President of the Senate
2-36 Sir:
2-37 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
2-38 No. 751, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-39 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-40 pass and be printed.
2-41 Harris of
2-42 Dallas, Chairman
2-43 * * * * *
2-44 WITNESSES
2-45 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No.751.