Bill Text: IL HB4488 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that no registration fee for gold star license plates shall be required from a surviving widow, widower, or parent of a person who served in the Armed Forces of the United States and lost his or her life while in service.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4488 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4488-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4488 Introduced , by Rep. Sue Scherer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 5/3-664
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that no registration fee for gold star license plates shall be required from a surviving widow, widower, or parent of a person who served in the Armed Forces of the United States and lost his or her life while in service.
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by changing
Section 3-664 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/3-664)
Sec. 3-664. Gold Star license plates. Upon proper
application, the Secretary of State shall issue registration
plates designated as Gold Star license plates to any Illinois
resident who is the surviving widow, widower, sibling,
daughter, son, or parent of a person who served in the Armed
Forces of the United States and lost his or her life while in
service whether in peacetime or war. The surviving widow or
widower and each surviving parent, daughter, son, and sibling
shall be issued one or more sets of registration plates.
Registration plates issued under this Section shall be for
first division vehicles and second division vehicles of 8,000
pounds or less. The Secretary may, in his or her discretion,
allow the plates to be issued as vanity or personalized plates
in accordance with Section 3-405.1 of this Code. An applicant
shall be charged only the appropriate registration fee, except
that no registration fee shall be required from a surviving
widow, widower, or parent.

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(Source: P.A. 97-723, eff. 1-1-13; 98-869, eff. 1-1-15.)