1-1 By: Hill (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1164
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1993;
1-3 May 13, 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 9, 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 for peace officers wounded or
1-24 killed in the line of duty.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of the 41st
1-27 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-1 et seq.,
1-28 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section 5p to
1-29 read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 5p. (a) The department shall design and provide for
1-31 the issuance of special license plates for a vehicle that is owned
1-32 by:
1-33 (1) a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace
1-34 officer; or
1-35 (2) a surviving spouse, parent, or adult child of a
1-36 person killed in the line of duty as a peace officer.
1-37 (b) License plates issued under this section must bear an
1-38 insignia depicting a yellow rose superimposed on the outline of a
1-39 badge with the words "To Protect and Serve" inscribed above.
1-40 (c) The department shall issue license plates under this
1-41 section to a person who:
1-42 (1) applies to the department on a form prescribed by
1-43 the department;
1-44 (2) pays the fee prescribed by Subsection (e) of this
1-45 section; and
1-46 (3) submits with the application proof, acceptable to
1-47 the department, that the person is eligible to receive the license
1-48 plates.
1-49 (d) A person applying for license plates under this section
1-50 may:
1-51 (1) have a license plate number assigned by the
1-52 department; or
1-53 (2) apply for personalized prestige license plates
1-54 under Section 5c of this Act.
1-55 (e) The fee for issuance of special license plates under
1-56 this section is $20 a year. This fee is in addition to the motor
1-57 vehicle registration fee imposed by Section 5 of this Act and, if
1-58 personalized prestige license plates are issued, in addition to the
1-59 fee imposed by Section 5c of this Act. The department shall
1-60 deposit fees collected under this section in the state treasury to
1-61 the credit of the state highway fund.
1-62 (f) If the owner of a vehicle for which plates are issued
1-63 under this section disposes of the vehicle during a registration
1-64 year, the person shall return the special license plates to the
1-65 department.
1-66 (g) A person eligible for license plates under this section
1-67 as a surviving spouse of a person killed in the line of duty as a
1-68 peace officer does not become ineligible because the person
2-1 remarries.
2-2 (h) For the purposes of this section, "peace officer" has
2-3 the meaning assigned by Section 1.07, Penal Code.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-10 * * * * *
2-11 Austin,
2-12 Texas
2-13 May 28, 1993
2-14 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-15 President of the Senate
2-16 Sir:
2-17 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
2-18 No. 1164, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-19 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-20 that it do pass and be printed.
2-21 Harris of
2-22 Dallas, Chairman
2-23 * * * * *
2-24 WITNESSES
2-25 No witnesses appeared on H.B. 1164.