Bill Text: TX HB1081 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to honor recipients of the Presidential Service Badge.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1081 Detail]

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By: Kuempel, Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1081
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 12, 2021;
April 13, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; April 22, 2021, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 22, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to honor
recipients of the Presidential Service Badge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 504.202(e-1), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e-1) Other than license plates issued under Subsection
(h), license plates issued under this section may include, on
request:
(1) the emblem of the veteran's branch of service; or
(2) one emblem from another license plate to which the
person is entitled under Section 504.308, 504.309, 504.310(b),
504.311, 504.312, 504.313, 504.3135, 504.314, 504.315, 504.316,
504.3161, 504.318, 504.319, 504.320, 504.323, [as added by Chapter
1085 (H.B. 3567), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session,
2017, or] 504.325, or 504.327.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 504, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 504.327 to read as follows:
Sec. 504.327. PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE BADGE. The department
shall issue specialty license plates for persons awarded the
Presidential Service Badge. The license plates must include:
(1) the words "Presidential Service Badge"; and
(2) a depiction of the Presidential Service Badge.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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