Amend HB 1480 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION _____.  (a)  Section 504.3135, Transportation Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 504.3135.  OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.  The department 
shall issue without charge specialty license plates for persons who 
served in the United States armed forces and participated in 
Operation Iraqi Freedom [on or after November 8, 2002, or on or 
before May 1, 2003].  License plates issued under this section must 
include the words "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
	(b)  The change in law made by this section applies only to a 
registration period beginning on or after the effective date of 
this Act.