Bill Text: MS HB708 | 2017 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; revise distribution of fees collected from issuance to members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Failed) 2017-02-28 - Died In Committee [HB708 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB708-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Revenue and Expenditure General Bills
By: Representatives Perkins, Holloway, Myers, Paden, Hudson, Sykes, Karriem
House Bill 708
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 27-19-56.22, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE DISTRIBUTION OF FEES COLLECTED FROM DISTINCTIVE MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE TAGS ISSUED TO MEMBERS OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 27-19-56.22, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
27-19-56.22. (1) Any owner of a motor vehicle who is a resident of this state and who is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority or Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, upon payment of the road and bridge privilege taxes, ad valorem taxes and registration fees as prescribed by law for private carriers of passengers, pickup trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles, and upon payment of an additional fee in the amount of Thirty Dollars ($30.00), shall be issued a distinctive license tag for each motor vehicle registered in his name identifying such person as a member or supporter of such organization. The distinctive license tags so issued shall display the Greek letters of the organization and shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue may prescribe; however, from and after July 1, 2014, there shall be two (2) special tag designs which may be issued under this section to a person who is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. One (1) shall be the design issued prior to July 1, 2014, and the other shall be a new design which shall be of such color and design as the Department of Revenue, with the advice of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, may prescribe. Tags issued pursuant to this section shall also consist of such letters or numbers, or both, as may be necessary to distinguish each license tag.
(2) Application for the distinctive license tags authorized by this section shall be made to the county tax collector on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. Applicants for an Alpha Phi Alpha distinctive license tag must present either a current or past Alpha Phi Alpha membership card or documentation signed by the president of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha in which the county is located verifying that the applicant is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Upon applying for an Alpha Phi Alpha distinctive license tag, the applicant shall select which of the two (2) tag designs he desires to be issued. The application and the additional fee imposed under subsection (1) of this section, less Two Dollars ($2.00) to be retained by the tax collector, shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue on a monthly basis as prescribed by the department. The portion of the additional fee retained by the tax collector shall be deposited into the county general fund.
(3) The distinctive license tag shall be issued for a one-year period. The additional annual fee shall be due and payable at the time of renewal registration.
(4) The Department of Revenue shall deposit all fees into the State Treasury on the day collected. At the end of each month, the Department of Revenue shall certify the total fees collected under this section to the State Treasurer who shall distribute such collections as follows:
(a) (i) Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) of each additional fee collected on the distinctive license tags issued to members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority pursuant to this section shall be distributed to the Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation. However, upon the request of a local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation shall distribute to the local chapter an amount equal to the fees generated by the purchase, on or after the first day of the next month beginning after the date of such request, of the distinctive license tags by members of the local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and by those members who purchased distinctive license tags by documentation signed by the president of the local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in which the county is located. The Department of Revenue shall furnish to the Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation such information as is necessary for the foundation to distribute the fees in such manner. The Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation may deduct an administrative fee in the amount of Two Dollars ($2.00) from the additional fee generated from the purchase of each distinctive license tag which is distributed to a local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
(ii) Except as
otherwise provided in this subparagraph (ii), Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)
of each additional fee collected on the distinctive license tags issued to
members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity pursuant to this section shall be
distributed to Alpha Foundation, Inc., of Jackson, Mississippi. * * * From and after July 1,
2017, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) of each additional fee collected on the
distinctive license tags issued to members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
pursuant to this section shall be distributed to Mississippi Alpha Network
Education and Leadership Foundation, Inc.
(iii) It is the intent of the Legislature that fees paid to the Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation, which fees were collected on distinctive license tags issued to members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity before July 1, 2003, shall be paid by the Coleman, Alexander, Possner Foundation to Alpha Foundation, Inc., of Jackson, MS.
(b) One Dollar ($1.00) of each additional fee collected on the distinctive license tags shall be deposited into the Mississippi Burn Care Fund created pursuant to Section 7-9-70.
(c) Two Dollars ($2.00) of each additional fee collected on distinctive license tags issued pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the credit of the State Highway Fund to be expended solely for the repair, maintenance, construction or reconstruction of highways.
(5) A regular license tag must be properly displayed as required by law until replaced by a distinctive license tag under this section. The regular license tag must be surrendered to the tax collector upon issuance of the distinctive license tag under this section. The tax collector shall issue up to two (2) month and year license decals for each distinctive license tag issued under this section, which will expire the same month and year as the license tag.
(6) In the case of loss or theft of a distinctive license tag issued under this section, the owner may make application and affidavit for a replacement distinctive license tag as provided by Section 27-19-37. The fee for a replacement distinctive license tag shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00). The tax collector receiving such application and affidavit shall be entitled to retain and deposit into the county general fund five percent (5%) of the fee for such replacement license tag and the remainder shall be distributed in the same manner as funds from the sale of regular distinctive license tags issued under this section.
(7) In order for a distinctive license tag displaying the new design authorized under this section to be issued under this section, the provisions of Section 27-19-44(3) must be satisfied for the distinctive license tag displaying such emblem before July 1, 2017.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
