Bill Text: TX HB2540 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for recipients of certain Texas military awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Filed [HB2540 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2540-Introduced.html

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89R7445 RDR-F
By: Bell of Montgomery H.B. No. 2540

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for recipients
of certain Texas military awards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 504.3015(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person applying for a set of license plates under this
subchapter shall pay the registration fee required under Chapter
502 and the applicable special plate fee required under this
section, except that one set of license plates shall be issued
without the payment of the registration fee under:
(1) Section 504.308;
(2) Section 504.310(b);
(3) Section 504.315, other than Subsections (c) and
(q) of that section; [and]
(4) Section 504.319;
(5) Section 504.331; and
(6) Section 504.337.
SECTION 2. Section 504.331, Transportation Code, as added
by Chapter 1050 (S.B. 280), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2023, is redesignated as Section 504.336, Transportation
Code, to read as follows:
Sec. 504.336 [504.331]. OPERATION FREEDOM'S SENTINEL. The
department shall issue specialty license plates for persons who
served in the United States armed services and participated in
Operation Freedom's Sentinel. The license plates must include the
words "Freedom's Sentinel."
SECTION 3. Section 504.331, Transportation Code, as added
by Chapter 506 (H.B. 2503), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2023, is redesignated as Section 504.337, Transportation
Code, to read as follows:
Sec. 504.337 [504.331]. TEXAS HUMANITARIAN SERVICE MEDAL.
The department shall issue specialty license plates for recipients
of the Texas Humanitarian Service Medal. The license plates must
include:
(1) the words "Texas Humanitarian Service Medal"; and
(2) a depiction of the Texas Humanitarian Service
Medal emblem.
SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.