Bill Text: TX HB627 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to the surviving spouse of a posthumous recipient of certain awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB627 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB627-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Harris of Anderson (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 627
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 11, 2023, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to the
surviving spouse of a posthumous recipient of certain awards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 504.416, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 504.416. STAR OF TEXAS AWARD RECIPIENTS. (a) The
department shall issue specialty license plates for persons who are
recipients of a Star of Texas Award under Chapter 3106, Government
Code. The license plates must include the Star of Texas Award
emblem and the words "Star of Texas."
(b) The surviving spouse of a person who was the posthumous
recipient of an award described by Subsection (a) is entitled to
specialty license plates issued under this section.
SECTION 2. Section 504.5115, Transportation Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) The surviving spouse of a person who was the posthumous
recipient of an award described by Subsection (a) is entitled to
specialty license plates issued under this section.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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