Bill Text: TX HB1273 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain military specialty license plates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1273 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1273-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain military specialty license plates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1273 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1273-Comm_Sub.html
By: Farias, Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) | H.B. No. 1273 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015; | ||
May 5, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 19, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1273 | By: Hancock |
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relating to certain military specialty license plates. | ||
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, 504.311, 504.312, | ||
504.313, 504.3135, 504.314, 504.315, 504.316, 504.318, or 504.319. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 504.3015(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The fee for the issuance of one set of specialty license | ||
plates issued under Section 504.315(d) [ |
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$3. There is no additional fee for a specialty license plate | ||
issued under another provision of this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 504.311, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 504.311. SERVICE IN KOREA [ |
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The department shall issue specialty license plates for persons who | ||
served in the United States armed forces: | ||
(1) during the period beginning on June 27 [ |
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National Defense Service Medal; | ||
(2) in a combat zone in Korea during the period | ||
beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on July 27, 1954, and who | ||
received the Korean Service Medal; or | ||
(3) in the Korean Demilitarized Zone beginning on July | ||
28, 1954, and who received the Korean Defense Service Medal [ |
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(b) License plates issued under this section must include | ||
the words "Korea Veteran[ |
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appropriate medal. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 504.312, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 504.312. VIETNAM VETERANS. (a) The department shall | ||
issue specialty license plates for persons who served in the United | ||
States armed forces [ |
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(1) during the period beginning on January 1, 1961, | ||
and ending on August 14, 1974, and who received the National Defense | ||
Service Medal; or | ||
(2) in a combat zone in the Republic of Vietnam | ||
during the period beginning on July 1, 1958 [ |
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and ending on March 28, 1973, and who received the Vietnam Service | ||
Medal [ |
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(b) License plates issued under this section must include | ||
the words "Vietnam Veteran[ |
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appropriate medal. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 504.313, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 504.313. DESERT SHIELD OR DESERT STORM VETERANS. (a) | ||
The department shall issue specialty license plates for persons who | ||
served in the United States armed forces: | ||
(1) during the period beginning on [ |
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National Defense Service Medal; or | ||
(2) in a combat zone in support of Operation Desert | ||
Shield or Desert Storm during the period beginning on August 2, | ||
1990, and ending on November 30, 1995, and who received the | ||
Southwest Asia Service Medal [ |
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(b) License plates issued under this section must include | ||
the words "Desert Shield/Storm/Provide Comfort[ |
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depiction of the appropriate medal. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 504.315, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
(j) The department shall issue specialty license plates for | ||
recipients of the Prisoner of War Medal. License plates issued | ||
under this subsection must include the Prisoner of War Medal emblem | ||
and must include the words "Prisoner of War Medal" at the bottom of | ||
each plate. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 504.315(c), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 8. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is not | ||
required to issue specialty license plates under Sections 504.311, | ||
504.312, 504.313, and 504.315, Transportation Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, until January 1, 2016. | ||
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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