1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to persons eligible to receive a license plate honoring
 1-3     peace officers killed in the line of duty.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.   Section 502.289(a), Transportation Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The department shall issue specially designed license
 1-8     [licensed] plates for a vehicle owned by:
 1-9                 (1)  a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace
1-10     officer; or
1-11                 (2)  a surviving spouse, parent, brother, sister, or
1-12     adult child, including an adopted child or stepchild, of a person
1-13     killed in the line of  duty as a peace officer.
1-14           SECTION 2.   This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 149 was passed by the House on May 8,
         2001, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 149 was passed by the Senate on May
         22, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  __________________________
                              Date
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                            Governor