74R8395 DWS-D
By Gutierrez H.B. No. 247
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 247:
By Alonzo C.S.H.B. No. 247
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the number and cost of sets of various types of armed
1-3 forces license plates that may be issued to a person.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 5k(f), (g), and (l), Chapter 88, General
1-6 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929
1-7 (Article 6675a-5k, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
1-8 read as follows:
1-9 (f) The fee for issuance of special license plates under
1-10 this section, other than license plates depicting the capitol,
1-11 Purple Heart license plates, and Pearl Harbor license plates, is
1-12 $10 a year for the first set and $15 a year for each additional
1-13 set. The fee for Purple Heart license plates and Pearl Harbor
1-14 license plates is $3 a year for the first set and $15 a year for
1-15 each additional set. The fee for license plates depicting the
1-16 capitol is $30 a year. Except as provided by Subsection (g) of
1-17 this section, a fee imposed under this subsection is in addition to
1-18 the motor vehicle registration fee imposed by Section 5 of this
1-19 Act, and if personalized prestige license plates are issued, in
1-20 addition to the fee imposed by Section 5c of this Act.
1-21 (g) A vehicle for which Pearl Harbor license plates or
1-22 Purple Heart license plates are issued under this section is exempt
1-23 from the motor vehicle registration fee imposed by Section 5 of
1-24 this Act and any additional county fee imposed under Section 9a of
2-1 this Act, except that a person is entitled to only one exemption
2-2 under this subsection regardless of the number of sets of plates
2-3 the person is issued.
2-4 (l) A person may <only> be issued one or more sets <set> of
2-5 armed forces license plates, one or more sets <set> of civil air
2-6 patrol license plates, one or more sets <set> of Pearl Harbor
2-7 license plates, one or more sets <set> of Coast Guard Auxiliary
2-8 license plates, one or more sets <set> of World War II veteran
2-9 license plates, one or more sets <set> of Korea veteran license
2-10 plates, one or more sets <set> of Vietnam veteran license plates,
2-11 one or more sets <set> of Desert Storm license plates, and one or
2-12 more sets <set> of Purple Heart license plates. If the owner of a
2-13 vehicle for which plates, other than license plates depicting the
2-14 capitol, are issued under this section disposes of the vehicle
2-15 during a registration year, the person shall return the special
2-16 plates to the department, and at that time may apply for issuance
2-17 of those plates to another vehicle.
2-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.