By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2141

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 14, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2141 By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to state and federal judges.

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

SECTION 1. Section 504.403, Transportation Code, as amended by Chapter 1296 (H.B. 2357), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, and repealed by Chapter 1290 (H.B. 2017), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:

Sec. 504.403. STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGES. (a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for a current or visiting state or federal judge. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the [The] license plates must include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge," as appropriate.

(b) A person entitled to license plates under this section may elect to receive license plates that do not include the words "State Judge" or "U.S. Judge."

(c) [(d)] In this section, "state[:

[(2) "State] judge" means:

(1) [(A)] a justice of the supreme court;

(2) [(B)] a judge of the court of criminal appeals;

(3) [(C)] a judge of a court of appeals of this state;

(4) [(D)] a district court judge;

(5) [(E)] a presiding judge of an administrative judicial district; or

(6) [(F)] a statutory county court judge.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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