By: Fallon S.B. No. 2015

(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 21, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 11, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 11, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the issuance of pediatric cancer research specialty license plates.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 504, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 504.6551 to read as follows:

Sec. 504.6551. PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH LICENSE PLATES. (a) The department shall issue specialty license plates that include the words "Kids Shouldn't Have Cancer." The department shall design the plates in consultation with the Kids Shouldn't Have Cancer Foundation.

(b) After deduction of the department's administrative costs, the remainder of the fee for issuance of the license plates shall be deposited to the credit of the cancer prevention and research fund established by Section 102.201, Health and Safety Code. Money deposited to that account may be used only to fund pediatric cancer research.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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