Bill Text: TX HB2115 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2115 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2115 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2115-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2115




	AN ACT


	relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to honor
	recipients of certain military awards.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Section 504.320, Transportation
	Code, as added by Chapter 708 (H.B. 1128), Acts of the 84th
	Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 504.320. RECIPIENTS OF CERTAIN COMBAT BADGES, MEDALS,
	OR RIBBONS [~~ACTION BADGE, MEDAL, OR RIBBON RECIPIENTS~~].
	SECTION 2. Section 504.320, Transportation Code, as added
	by Chapter 708 (H.B. 1128), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
	Session, 2015, is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) and amending
	Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(c-1) The department shall issue specialty license plates
	for recipients of the Combat Medical Badge. License plates issued
	under this subsection must include the Combat Medical Badge emblem
	and must include the words "Combat Medical Badge" at the bottom of
	each plate.
	(d) A specialty license plate issued under this section for
	a badge or ribbon that may be awarded more than once shall [~~For~~
	~~purposes of Subsections (a) and (c), if a branch of the United~~
	~~States armed forces awards a Combat Action Badge or Ribbon with a~~
	~~unique emblem for each award of the Combat Action Badge or Ribbon to~~
	~~a recipient, the department shall only issue specialty license~~
	~~plates that~~] include only the [~~unique~~] emblem of the first award
	badge or ribbon.
	SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 504, Transportation Code,
	is amended by adding Section 504.323 to read as follows:
	Sec. 504.323. TOMB GUARD. The department shall issue
	specialty license plates for persons who serve or have served in the
	Third United States Infantry Regiment as a guard for the Tomb of the
	Unknown Soldier and are awarded the Guard, Tomb of the Unknown
	Soldier Identification Badge. The license plates must include a
	likeness of the Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Identification
	Badge and must include the words "Tomb Guard" at the bottom of each
	plate.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2115 was passed by the House on May 9,
	2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 2115 on May 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 2115 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor